Minority languages and cultural diversity in Europe : Gaelic and Sorbian perspectives /: Gaelic and Sorbian perspectives. (©2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Konstanze Glaser.
• Other Names: Glaser, Konstanze, 1968-
• Contents: Cover . Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Coding -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Purpose and Key Issues -- Outline of Content -- Research Methodology and Ethical Considerations -- Chapter 2 Ethnocultural Minorities in Europe: The Political Context -- Ethnicity and Ethnocultural Belonging -- Legacies of Nationalism -- Globalisation and European Unity -- Ethnocultural Identities -- Theories on Language, Thought and Culture from the Enlightenment to the Present / Chapter 3 Multilingualism as Premise of Cultural Diversity -- Inquiries into Language and Culture at the Time of the Enlightenment and the Romantic Movement -- Investigations into Language and Thought During the First Half of the 20th Century -- Two Languages, Two World Views?. Diversity Under Threat: Responses to Fragmentation, Competition and Hybridity / Bilinguality -- Recent Contributions and Initiatives -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 4 Gaelic in Scotland -- 'Gaelic' as a Linguistic Label -- The Decline of Gaelic -- Gaelic in the 20th Century -- On the Origins and Conceptual Transformation of Gaeldom -- Recent Initiatives and Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 5 Sorbian in Lusatia -- 'Sorbian' as a Linguistic Label -- Speaker Numbers from the 17th to the Mid-20th Centuries -- The Origins and Key Dimensions of Sorbian Nationhood -- Sorbian Linguistic Nationalism -- Concluding Remarks from a Comparative Perspective -- Gaelic and Sorbian in Relation to Thought, Culture and Self / Chapter 6 Language Metaphysics on the Ground -- Do Bilingual People Think Differently?. A Matter of Access: Languages as Codes to Histories and Homelands / Two Languages, Two Windows Onto the World -- The Argument that Certain Things Cannot Be Translated -- Language Loss as a Cause of Social Decay / Language and Selfhood -- Worlds of Gaelic/Sorbian and Worlds of English/German -- Implications for Corpus Planning and Education / Concluding Remarks -- Language as a Unifier / Chapter 7 Narratives of Continuity -- Cultural Survival from a Minority Perspective -- Dimensions of. Change -- Dimensions of Continuity: Old Sources, Modern Implementations -- The Importance of Linguistic Continuity to Specific Practices -- Concluding Remarks -- Language as Source of Social Boundaries / 8 The (Re)Production of Difference -- The Demise of the Highland Line / Gaelic -- Otherness or Ambiguity?. Language Proficiency as a Marker of Elites / Sorbian -- Concluding Remarks -- 9 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Scotland and Ireland from a Gaelic perspective / Appendix A -- Shares of Gaelic speakers in local populations (parish-level) in 2001. Appendix C: Slavic territories to the west of the River Oder in the 10th and 11th centuries / Appendix B -- Areas with significant numbers of Sorbian/Wendish speakers (1999). Appendix E: Gaelic-related Questionnaire (English version). Appendix F: Sorbian-related Questionnaire (German version). Index / Appendix D -- Last Page.
• Publisher Details: Clevedon [England] Buffalo [NY] : Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2007
• Copyright Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 397 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 305.7094; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; Linguistic minorities -- Europe; Nationalism -- Europe; Language and culture -- Europe; Thought and thinking; Scottish Gaelic language -- History; Sorbian languages -- History; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations; Language and culture; Linguistic minorities; Nationalism; Scottish Gaelic language; Sorbian languages; Thought and thinking; Minderheidstalen; Nationalisme; Relativisme; Gaelic (Schots); Sorbisch; Anthropology; Europe; Europa (geografie); Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781853599330; 1853599336
• Related ISBNs: 9781853599323; 1853599328
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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