Language Attitudes and Minority Rights
Title | Language Attitudes and Minority Rights PDF eBook |
Author | James Hawkey |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2018-04-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3319745972 |
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.
Attitudes and Language
Title | Attitudes and Language PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Baker |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781853591426 |
The book aims to establish the concept of attitudes as more central to the study of minority and majority languages. The strong tradition of attitude theory and research from social psychology is made relevant to language restoration and decay. Original research shows how attitude to bilingualism is conceptually distinct from attitude to a specific language. A piece of research in Wales investigates the origins of language attitudes in individual differences and in environmental attributes.
Investigating Language Attitudes
Title | Investigating Language Attitudes PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Garrett |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2003-07-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1783162074 |
This is a systematic and critical appraisal of the variety of ways in which people's attitudes to language have been researched internationally over recent decades. The authors explain this complex field through clear reviews and commentary on previous work, while also offering a demonstration of language attitude research in one specific and important context, the English language in Wales. In addition to discussing different ways of expressing attitudes, from teenagers' and teachers' attitudes to regional and subcultural variation in attitudes, the book also considers issues such as degrees of authentic Welshness, the impact of rapid social change in Wales.
Discourse and Struggle in Minority Language Policy Formation
Title | Discourse and Struggle in Minority Language Policy Formation PDF eBook |
Author | J. Adrey |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2009-02-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0230583989 |
The author 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.
Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape
Title | Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | D. Gorter |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2011-12-13 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0230360238 |
Providing an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space this volume explores minority language situations through the lens of linguistic landscape research. Based on very tangible data it explores the 'same old issues' of language contact and language conflict in new ways.
Attitudes to Endangered Languages
Title | Attitudes to Endangered Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Sallabank |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2013-12-19 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1107030617 |
An in-depth study of endangered language revitalisation, which assesses the implications of changing language attitudes for language campaigners and policy-makers.
Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages
Title | Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Willem Fase |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027241015 |
The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of the book theoretical perspectives are presented, followed by linguistic, sociological and descriptive studies of languages and countries that have attracted the interest of researchers before, as well as less well known examples. Data are presented from: the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Israel, The Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Morocco, Finland, Malaysia, Germany, USA, Ireland, India, Tanzania and Australia.