Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation edited by Huw Lewis, Wilson McLeod

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewis, Huw, Editor.

McLeod, Wilson, Editor.

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Series:

Language and globalization 2947-7514

Language and Globalization 2947-7514

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics.

Linguistic change.

Globalization.

Language policy.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed. 2021

Contained In:

Springer Nature eBook

Place of Publication:

Cham Springer International Publishing Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 2021

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Summary:

"The field of revitalisation research and practice has been waiting for this book. It is well known that we are seeing a surge in systematic efforts to revitalise, renovate, invigorate and generally to protect and defend small and threatened languages. All across the world optimism and hard work are put towards this important, humane, just and enriching activity. This book demonstrates convincingly how wide-ranging social, economic and institutional change creates new conceptual and practical challenges for the global revitalisation project." -Joseph Lo Bianco, University of Melbourne, Australia This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers in order to examine how and to what extent the challenge of language revitalisation should be reassessed and reconceptualised to take account of our fast-changing social context. The period of four decades between 1980 and 2020 that straddled the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first is widely regarded as one that witnessed a series of fundamental social, economic and political transformations. Many societies have become increasingly individualistic, mobile and diverse in terms of ethnicity and identity; their economies have become increasingly interconnected; and their governance structures have become increasingly complex, incorporating a growing number of different levels and actors. In addition, rapid advancements with regard to automated, digital and communication technology have had a far-reaching impact on how people interact with each other and participate in society. The chapters in this book aim to advance an agenda of key questions that should concern those working in the field of language revitalisation over the coming years, and the volume will be of interest to students, scholars and policy-makers in related areas including sociolinguistics, education, sociology, geography, political science, law, economics, Celtic studies, and communicationtechnology. Huw Lewis is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Aberystwyth University, UK. Wilson McLeod is Professor of Gaelic at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part 1: Communities

Chapter 2: The geography of minority language use: from community to network

Chapter 3: Minority languages in the age of networked individualism: from social networks to digital breathing spaces

Chapter 4: Communities, networks and contemporary language revitalisation

Part 2: Families

Chapter 5: Family language policy and language transmission in times of change

Chapter 6: Family language policy: promoting partnership in the early years to support heritage languages

Chapter 7: Changes in family structure and lifestyles: challenges for regional or minority languages

Part 3: Economy

Chapter 8: The economics of 'language[s] at work': theory, hiring model and evidence

Chapter 9: Gàidhlig, Gaeilge, Cymraeg and føroyskt mál: minority languages as economic assets?

Chapter 10: Regional and minority languages and the economy: the evolution of structural and analytical challenges

Part 4: Governance

Chapter 11: The governance of language revitalisation: the case of Wales

Chapter 12: The governance of Irish in the neoliberal age: the retreat of the state under the guise of partnership

Chapter 13: Governance, policy-making and language revitalisation

Chapter 14: Afterword: Forging hope in the company of cynics

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ISBN:

9783030801892