From bud to fruit and back to the roots of the European Journal of Applied Linguistics

Abstract In this epilogue, the issues raised in the editorial are taken up and a possible framework for future research in the field of applied linguistics in and for Europe is outlined. It sketches in an essayist manner how and where important impulses of approaches from the 1970 s can be (re)discovered with a “look back ahead”, a “back to the roots”. In addition to a brief assessment of the current status of Applied Linguistics, the questions posed by the young researchers at AILA will be used to indicate the extent to which theoretical models of multilingualism and institutional communication can be taken up and possibly analytically expanded. The approach of “southern multilingualisms” seems to be just as fruitful here as the concept of “inclusive multilingualism”. Moreover, the epilogue is to be understood as a plea to take the epithet “European” of the journal EuJAL seriously.