Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts - Australian and European Perspectives
PAUWELS Anne , WINTER Joanne , LO BIANCO Joseph
Product details
- Categories: Languages
- Publisher: PALGRAVE-MACMILLAN
- Collection: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
- ISBN: 9780230019195
- Publication Date: 17/04/2007
- Binding: Hardback
- Number of pages: 224
- Language: English
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 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.
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 SociolinguisticsTable of contents
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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
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