Contested languages the hidden multilingualism of Europe edited by Marco Tamburelli and Mauro Tosco.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tamburelli, Marco.

Tosco, Mauro.

Series:

Studies in World Language Problems ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistic minorities--Europe.

Linguistic minorities.

Europe--Languages.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing Company 2021

Summary:

"This is the first volume entirely dedicated to Contested Languages. While generally listed in international language atlases, Contested Languages usually fall through the cracks of research: excluded from the literature on minority languages and treated as mere ensembles of geographically defined varieties by traditional dialectology. This volume investigates the nature of contested languages, the role language ideologies play in the perception of these languages, the contribution of academic discourse to the formation and perpetuation of language contestedness, and the damage contestedness causes to linguistic communities and ultimately to linguistic diversity. Various situations and degrees of language contestedness are presented and analysed, along with theoretical considerations, exploring potential roads to recognition and issues in language planning that arise from language contestedness. Addressing the "language vs dialect" question head on, the volume opens up new perspectives that are relevant to all students and researchers interested in the maintenance of linguistic diversity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. What are contested languages and why should linguists care?

Section 1. The broader picture

Chapter 2. Contested languages and the denial of linguistic rights in the 21st century

Chapter 3. Democracy

Section 2. Identifying and perceiving contested languages

Chapter 4. Mixing methods in linguistic classification

Chapter 5. The cost of ignoring degrees of Abstand in defining a regional language

Chapter 6. Deconstructing the idea of language

Chapter 7. Surveying the ethnolinguistic vitality of two contested languages

Chapter 8. Contested orthographies

Chapter 9. Revitalising contested languages

Section 3. Working with contestedness

Chapter 10. Community-based language planning

Chapter 11. Teaching Piedmontese

Chapter 12. Publishing a grammar and literature anthology of a contested language

Chapter 13. Which Sardinian for education?

Section 4. Beyond contested languages

Chapter 14. Citizenship and nationality

Chapter 15. The language ideology of Esperanto

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9789027260383

9027260389