Record Nr.

UNINA9910780458703321

Titolo

Multilingualism in Spain [[electronic resource] ] : sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of linguistic minority groups / / edited by M. Teresa Turell

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Clevedon ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, c2001

ISBN

9786610827794

1-280-82781-5

9786610827817

9781853597103

1-85359-710-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (405 p.)

Collana

Multilingual matters ; ; 120

Altri autori (Persone)

TurellM. Teresa <1949->

Disciplina

460/.42/0946

Soggetti

Linguistic minorities - Spain

Multilingualism - Spain

Sociolinguistics - Spain

Psycholinguistics - Spain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- The Contributors -- 1. Spain's Multicultural Make-up: Beyond, Within and Across Babel -- 2. The Catalan-speaking Communities -- 3. The Basque-speaking Communities -- 4. The Galician Speech Community -- 5. The Occitan Speech Community of the Aran Valley -- 6. The Asturian Speech Community -- 7. The Sign Language Communities -- 8. The Gitano Communities -- 9. The Jewish Communities -- 10. The Brazilian Community -- 11. The Cape Verdean Community -- 12. The Chinese Community -- 13. The Italian Community -- 14. The Maghrebi Communities -- 15. The Portuguese Community -- 16. The UK Community -- 17. The US American Speech Community

Sommario/riassunto

Multilingualism in Spain deals with the sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of established and new migrant minority groups in Spain. Three guiding analytical research approaches cut across minorities in Spain: language, migration and discrimination,

although not all aspects apply to all minorities in the same way: some are characterised by language, migration and discrimination; other communities are only defined by language and migration, but their members are not discriminated against socially and culturally; another group of communities are not characterised by recent migration, but they are discriminated against and/or their languages not even officially recognised; lastly, there are some other communities that do not find enough legal and institutional support and their languages may suffer discrimination.