Product details
- Categories: Languages
- Publisher: PALGRAVE-MACMILLAN
- Collection: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
- ISBN: 9781403998163
- Publication Date: 10/11/2005
- Binding: Hardback
- Number of pages: 264
- Language: English
Summary
This book draws on the most exhaustive primary data on European autochthonous language groups. The data was collected within the EC funded Euromosaic project whose theoretical perspective determined the nature of the data. The book reasseses the data by suggesting that while it incorporates the inherent assumptions of the theory, it also allows the analyst to establish how the language object and the associated subjects are constructed in different ways across Europe. This observation is then incorporated into an evaluation of the extent to which the current discourses on democracy accommodate linguistic and cultural diversity.
Table of contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Introduction: The Minoritisation of Language Groups
Conceptualisation and Method
Legitimation
Education
Reproduction: Family, Community and Household Media Use
Language Prestige
Institutionalisation of Language Use
Data Evaluation
Diversity and Democracy
Bibliography
Index
Appendix