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Author : Hiroshi Shōji
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Northern Minority Languages written by Hiroshi Shōji and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Hawkey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319745972
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Language Attitudes and Minority Rights written by James Hawkey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a detailed sociolinguistic study of the traditionally Catalan-speaking areas of Southern France, and sheds new light on language attitudes, phonetic variation, language ideologies and minority language rights. The region’s complex dual identity, both Catalan and French, both peripheral and strategic, is shown to be reflected in the book’s attitudinal findings which in turn act as reliable predictors of phonetic variation. The author’s careful discursive analysis paints a clear picture of the linguistic ideological landscape: in which French dominates as the language of status and prestige. This innovative work, employing cutting-edge mixed methods, provides an in-depth account of an under-examined language situation, and draws on this research to propose a number of policy recommendations to protect minority rights for speakers of Catalan in the region. Combining language attitudes, sociophonetics, discourse studies, and language policy, this will provide an invaluable reference for scholars of French and Catalan studies and minority languages around the world.
Author : James N. Stanford
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027218641
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages written by James N. Stanford and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous minority languages have played crucial roles in many areas of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, and the ethnography of communication. Such languages have, however, received comparatively little attention from quantitative or variationist sociolinguistics. Without the diverse perspectives that underrepresented language communities can provide, our understanding of language variation and change will be incomplete. To help fill this gap and develop broader viewpoints, this anthology presents 21 original, fieldwork-based studies of a wide range of indigenous languages in the framework of quantitative sociolinguistics. The studies illustrate how such understudied communities can provide new insights into language variation and change with respect to socioeconomic status, gender, age, clan, lack of a standard, exogamy, contact with dominant majority languages, internal linguistic factors, and many other topics.
Author : Durk Gorter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940077317X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Minority Languages and Multilingual Education written by Durk Gorter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents research on the situation minority language schoolchildren face when they need to learn languages of international communication, in particular English. The book takes minority languages as a starting point and it bridges local and global perspectives in the analysis of multilingual education contexts. It examines the interaction of minority languages and cultures, majority languages and lingua franca-s in a variety of settings across different regions and countries on all continents. Even though all chapters in this book involve minority languages, the issues discussed are relevant to any context in which more than language is used in education. The book reveals challenges and opportunities of multilingual education by discussing issues such as Northern and Southern concepts, language education policies, language diversity, interethnic understanding, multimodal language practices, power, conflict, identity and prestige, among many others. “This is the volume that finally accounts for multilingual education from a truly multilingual perspective by involving proposals and research from a variety of multilingual speech communities in the world. The (linguistically) rich Ethiopia and Mexico can teach the poor Europe and other Northern countries about multilingual education. CLIL promoters may learn from Finnish Sámi and Canadian Innu and Mi’gmaq indigenous communities as well as from Basque results. Speakers and teachers of minority and international languages will certainly be glad to hear the news. There is no need for a monolingual bias or tunnel vision in acquiring English in non-English speaking communities. This volume includes new challenging pedagogical perspectives while pointing to interesting conclusions for worldwide educational authorities”. Maria Pilar Safont Jordà, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain
Author : Bernd Kortmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110220261
Total Pages : 934 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of Europe written by Bernd Kortmann and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open publicationThe Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The book supplies profiles of the language families of Europe, including the sign languages. It also discusses the areal typology, paying attention to the Standard Average European, Balkan, Baltic and Mediterranean convergence areas. Separate chapters deal with the old and new minority languages and with non-standard varieties. A major focus is language politics and policies, including discussions of the special status of English, the relation between language and the church, language and the school, and standardization. The history of European linguistics is another focus as is the history of multilingual European 'empires' and their dissolution. The volume is especially geared towards a graduate and advanced undergraduate readership. It has been designed such that it can be used, as a whole or in parts, as a textbook, the first of its kind, for graduate programmes with a focus on the linguistic (and linguistics) landscape of Europe.
Author : G. Hogan-Brun
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230502997
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Minority Languages in Europe written by G. Hogan-Brun and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-11-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minority languages in Europe, as part of a common cultural heritage, need protection. The contributions to this book reflect urgent, stimulating and productive debates among researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, politics and sociology, and among language activists and policy makers. At the heart of the debate are the effectiveness of the existing political and legal frameworks aimed at protecting linguistic and cultural diversity, and prospects for the survival of minority languages in the process of European integration.
Author : Gabrielle Hogan-Brun
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137540664
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities written by Gabrielle Hogan-Brun and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook is an in-depth appraisal of the field of minority languages and communities today. It presents a wide-ranging, coherent picture of the main topics, with key contributions from international specialists in sociolinguistics, policy studies, sociology, anthropology and law. Individual chapters are grouped together in themes, covering regional, non-territorial and migratory language settings across the world. It is the essential reference work for specialist researchers, scholars in ancillary disciplines, research and coursework students, public agencies and anyone interested in language diversity, multilingualism and migration.
Author : Qingsheng Zhou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501511831
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Ethnic Minority Languages in China written by Qingsheng Zhou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and analyzes the situation of minority languages in China.
Author : Gearóid Mac Eoin
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9780905028781
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Third International Conference on Minority Languages written by Gearóid Mac Eoin and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1987 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of papers on various aspects, mainly linguistic, of the present day situation of the Celtic languages of Britain and Ireland. The papers were given at the Third International Conference on Minority Languages, which was held in Galway, Ireland in June 1986. A companion volume, entitled Third International Conference on Minority Languages: Celtic Papers is also published by Multilingual Matters Ltd.
Author : Olaf Zenker
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857459147
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Irish/ness Is All Around Us written by Olaf Zenker and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language, music, dance and sports. The author’s theoretical approach to ethnicity and ethnic revivals presents an expanded explanatory framework for the social (re)production of ethnicity, theorizing the mutual interrelations between representations and cultural practices regarding their combined capacity to engender ethnic revivals. Relevant not only to readers with an interest in the intricacies of the Northern Irish situation, this book also appeals to a broader readership in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, history and political science concerned with the mechanisms behind ethnonational conflict and the politics of culture and identity in general.
Author : W. Fase
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134379420
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book The State of Minority Languages written by W. Fase and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many regional languages across the world are threatened by modernization and urbanization whilst the universal and rapid rise of migration has created new and unprecedented forms of multilingualism. Aspects of education, national policies and attitudes towards minority languages are documented.
Author : Henry G. Schwarz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Minorities of Northern China written by Henry G. Schwarz and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Moseley
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 : 9231040960
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger written by Christopher Moseley and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Languages are not only tools of communication, they also reflect a view of the world. Languages are vehicles of value systems and cultural expressions and are an essential component of the living heritage of humanity. Yet, many of them are in danger of disappearing. UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger tries to raise awareness on language endangerment. This third edition has been completely revised and expanded to include new series of maps and new points of view.
Author : Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195374924
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Language & Ethnic Identity written by Joshua A. Fishman and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the connection between language and ethnicity.
Author : R.E. Asher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317851080
Total Pages : 1009 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Atlas of the World's Languages written by R.E. Asher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.
Author : S. Robert Ramsey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069126824X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Languages of China written by S. Robert Ramsey and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incredible source of information about the Chinese language and China’s minority languages In this accessible and informative book, S. Robert Ramsey lucidly explains what the Chinese language is—its social and geographical situation, its history, its range of dialects, the structure of the modern standard language, and the writing system. He goes on to describe the languages of China’s national minorities, showing how they interrelate with each other and with Chinese. Readers learn about the peoples who speak the languages of China, what China is like linguistically, and the cultural and historical settings of the country’s languages. For those who want more linguistic detail, Ramsey provides lists, maps, charts, and descriptions along with technical references in notes at the end of the book. Invaluable to general linguists and Sinologists alike, The Languages of China is an excellent introduction to Chinese and East Asian linguistics.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004298509
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Indigenous writing and literacies written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Indigenous writing and literacies across five continents, this volume celebrates the resilience of Indigenous languages. This book makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the contemporary challenges facing Indigenous writing and literacies and argues that innovative and creative ideas can create a hopeful future for Indigenous writing. Contributions following the themes ‘Sketching the Context’, ‘Enhancing Writing’, and ‘Creating the Future’ are concluded with two reflective chapters evidencing the importance of volume’s thesis for the future of Indigenous writing and literacies. This volume encourages the development of research in this area, specifically inviting the international writing research community to engage with Indigenous peoples and support research on the nexus of Indigenous writing, literacies and education.
