Linguistic minorities in multilingual settings : implications for language policies / Christina Bratt Paulston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paulston, Christina Bratt, 1932-

Series:

Studies in bilingualism ; v. 4.

Studies in bilingualism, 0928-1533 ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism.

Language policy.

Linguistic minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most countries in the world today are multilingual, that is they contain ethnic groups in contact and not infrequently in competition. Such thinking has held implications for the setting of language policies, from hanging a wooden clog around the neck of a child heard speaking Occitan in Southern France to the considerable budgeting in Ireland for the promotion of Irish.In this book, Paulston presents an analytical framework for explainin

Contents:

LINGUISTIC MINORITIES IN MULTILINGUAL SETTINGS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; PART I; Chapter 1. Multilingualism and Language Policies; Chapter 2. Social Factors in Language Maintenance and Language Shift; Chapter 3. Ethnicity and Nationalism; PART II; Introduction; Chapter 4. Catalan and Occitan: Comparative Test Cases for a Theory of Language Maintenance and Shift; Chapter 5. Case Studies: Tanzania, Peru and Sweden; Chapter 6. Language Revitalization: The Case of Irish

Chapter 7. Language Regenesis: Language Revival, Revitalization and ReversalChapter 8. Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-129) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613222183

1-283-22218-3

90-272-8281-1

OCLC:

744354082