The palgrave handbook of minority languages and communities. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of minority languages and communities; Minority languages and communities
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, Bernadette O'Rourke.
• Editors: Hogan-Brun, Gabrielle, 1955-; O'Rourke, Bernadette
• Contents: Introduction.- Chapter 1: Minority Languages and Communities in a Changing World; Gabrielle Hogan-Brun and Bernadette O'Rourke.- Part I: Minority Language Rights, Protection, Governance.- Chapter 2: Minority Language Rights and Standards: Definitions and Applications at the Supra-national Level; Fernand de Varennes and Elzbieta Kuzborska.- Chapter 3: Minority Language Rights in the Russian Federation: The End of a Long Tradition?; Bill Bowring.- Chapter 4: Minority Languages, Governance and Regulation; Colin Williams and John Walsh.- Part II: Recognition, Self-determination, Autonomy.- Chapter 5: The Recognition of Ethnic and Language Diversity in Nation-States and Consociations; Christian Giordan.- Chapter 6: Linguistic Recognition in Deeply Divided Societies: Antagonism or Reconciliation?; Máiréad Nic Craith and Philip McDermott.- Chapter 7: National Cultural Autonomy and Linguistic Rights in Central and Eastern Europe; David Smith, Federica Prina and Judit Molnar Sansum.- Chapter 8: Sign Language Communities; Maartje De Meulder, Verena Krausneker, Graham Turner and John Bosco Gonama.- Part III: Migration, Settlement, Mobility.- Chapter 9: Changing Perspectives on Language Maintenance and Shift in Transnational Settings: From Settlement to Mobility; Anne Pauwels .- Chapter 10: Arctic Languages in Canada in the Age of Globalisation; Donna Patrick.- Part IV: Economics, Markets, Commodification.- Chapter 11: Minority Languages and Markets; Sari Pietikäinen, Helen Kelly-Holmes and Maria Rieder.- Chapter 12: Language Economics and Issues of Planning for Minority Languages in Africa; Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu.- Chapter 13: Language Minorities in a Globalized Economy: The Case of Professional Translation in Canada; Matthieu LeBlanc.- Part V: Education, Literacy, Access.- Chapter 14: Indigenous Children's Language Practices in Australia; Samantha Disbray and Gillian Wigglesworth.- Chapter 15: Minorities, Languages, Education and Assimilation in Southeast Asia; Peter Sercombe.- Chapter 16: Literacy in My Language? Principles, Practices, Prospects; Clinton Robinson.- Part VI: Media, Public Usage, Visibility.- Chapter 17: Minority Language Media: Issues of Power, Finance and Organization; Tom Moring.- Chapter 18: Minority Languages and Social Media; Daniel Cunliffe.- Chapter 19: Linguistic Landscapes and Minority Languages; Durk Gorter, Heiko Marten and Luk Van Mensel.- Part VII: Endangerment, Ecosystems, Resilience.- Chapter 20: Resilience for Minority Languages; David Bradley.- Chapter 21: Minority Contact Languages, Small Islands and Linguistic Ecology; Joshua Nash.- Chapter 22: The Yiddish Conundrum: A Cautionary Tale for Language Revivalism; Dovid Katz.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 305.7; Linguistic minorities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137540669
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