Maintaining minority languages in transnational contexts / edited by Anne Pauwels, Joanne Winter and Joseph Lo Bianco.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pauwels, Anne.

Winter, Joanne, 1958-

Lo Bianco, Joseph.

Series:

Palgrave studies in minority languages and communities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language policy--Europe.

Language policy.

Linguistic minorities.

Language maintenance.

Europe.

Language policy--Australia.

Language maintenance--Europe.

Language maintenance--Australia.

Linguistic minorities--Europe.

Linguistic minorities--Australia.

Australia.

Physical Description:

xii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillian, 2007.

Summary:

Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts offers insights into the complexities of language planning and policy, and highlights Australian and European - and EU - approaches to the management of multilingualism. These approaches include dealing with indigenous and migrant ethnoliguistic minorities critical examination of educational policies for the provision of community languages in mainstream schooling the educational initiatives for the linguistic integration of minority language speakers and community efforts to maintain and/or revitalise minority languages. The chapters offer insights into country-specific policies in Australia, Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Spain and Sweden, and engage in comparative discussions, either between countries within Europe or between Australia and Europe.

Contents:

1 Managing and Maintaining Minority Languages in the Era of Globalization: Challenges for Europe and Australia / Anne Pauwels 1

Part I Demography and Meaning

2 Community Languages and the 2001 Australian Census / Sandra Kipp 13

3 Comparative Perspectives on Immigrant Minority Languages in Multicultural Europe / Guus Extra 30

Part II Policy and Planning

4 Maintaining Multilingualism in Europe: Propositions for a European Language Policy / Peter Hans Nelde 59

5 Contrasting and Comparing Minority Language Policy: Europe and Australia / Joseph Lo Bianco 78

Part III Policy and Practice in Specific Settings

6 Maintaining a Language Other than English Through Higher Education in Australia / Anne Pauwels 107

7 Inconsistencies and Discrepancies in Official Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: The Case of Norway / Tove Bull 124

8 Communication and Community: Perspectives on Language Policy in Sweden and Australia since the Mid-1970s / Sally Boyd 141

9 Language Maintenance and the Second Generation: Policies and Practices / Joanne Winter, Anne Pauwels 180.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0230019196

9780230019195

OCLC:

73743526

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