Discourse and Struggle in Minority Language Policy Formation - Corsican Language Policy in the EU Context of Governance
ADREY Jean-Bernard
Product details
- Categories: Languages
- Publisher: PALGRAVE-MACMILLAN
- Collection: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
- ISBN: 9780230537347
- Publication Date: 12/02/2009
- Binding: Hardback
- Number of pages: 296
- Language: English
Summary
Discourse and Struggle in Minority Language Policy Formation presents a new approach to the study of language policy, by focusing on language policy formation and implementation as a dynamic, conflict-laden process involving the interaction of various actors with different motivations and uneven bargaining powers, rather than as a product, examinable post hoc from existing language legislation.
This approach places competing ideologies and both institutional and non-institutional bargaining centrally in language policy formation processes, thus creating a dynamic analytical framework that permits examination of various forms of discursive, legal and institutional struggle at each stage of the language policy process, from policy design down to actual patterns of language attitudes and behaviours (i.e. policy acceptance or rejection) at grassroots levels.
The book develops this framework through a case study of Regional and Minority Language politics and policy-making in the EU, with specific reference to the impact of European integration and European language politics upon French minority language policy for Corsica.
Table of contents
Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements/Remerciements
List of Acronyms
Preface
Introduction
Theoretical Frameworks and Methodological Implications - Regional and Minority Language Politics and Policy-making in the EU
The EU Sociolinguistic Regimes: Community Official and/or Working Languages, Education and Culture
The EU's RML Policy Network: Legal Governing and Governance Politics
Language, Nation and State in French Linguistic Nationalism: History, Developments, Perspectives
Unity and Diversity in Corsica: Patterns of Identity and Political Separatism
From One Diglossic Situation to Another: Ideological and Sociolinguistic Change in Modernising Corsica (1769-1974)
Language Institutionalisation, Language Policy Network and Language Use in contemporary Corsica (1974-2004)
Language Ideologies, Language Planning and Language Attitudes in Contemporary Corsica
General Conclusion
References
Index