Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts - Australian and European Perspectives

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 ethnolinguistic minorities, critical examination of educational policies for the provision of community languages in mainstream schooling, 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.

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Reviews:

'Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts...offers a thorough and accessible overview of language policy and planning isssues in Australia and Europe. Its nine entries are engaging and well-written. Equally important, consistent placement of a common set of concerns against larger sociological, cultural and political context bring this volume...together into a coherent whole.' - Christof Demont-Henrich, Journal of Sociolinguistics

List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Managing and Maintaining Minority Languages in the Era of Globalization: Challenges for Europe and Australia; A.Pauwels PART I: DEMOGRAPHY AND MEANING Community Languages and the 2001 Australian Census; S.Kipp Comparative Perspectives on Immigrant Minority Languages in Multicultural Europe; G.Extra PART II: POLICY AND PLANNING Maintaining Multilingualism in Europe: Propositions for a European Language Policy; P.H.Nelde Contrasting and Comparing Minority Language Policy: 'Europe' and Australia; J.Lo Bianco PART III: POLICY AND PRACTICE IN SPECIFIC SETTINGS Maintaining a Language Other than English Through Higher Education in Australia; A.Pauwels Inconsistencies and Discrepancies in Official Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: The Case of Norway; T.Bull Communication and Community: Perspectives on Language Policy in Sweden and Australia Since the mid 1970s; S.Boyd Language Maintenance and the Second Generation: Policies and Practices; J.Winter & A.Pauwels Index