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Autore |
Paulston Christina Bratt <1932-> |
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Titolo |
Linguistic minorities in multilingual settings [[electronic resource] ] : implications for language policies / / Christina Bratt Paulston |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., 1994 |
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ISBN |
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9786613222183 |
1-283-22218-3 |
90-272-8281-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (148 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in bilingualism, , 0928-1533 ; ; v. 4 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Multilingualism |
Language policy |
Linguistic minorities |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-129) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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LINGUISTIC MINORITIES IN MULTILINGUAL SETTINGS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; PART I; Chapter 1. Multilingualism and Language Policies; Chapter 2. Social Factors in Language Maintenance and Language Shift; Chapter 3. Ethnicity and Nationalism; PART II; Introduction; Chapter 4. Catalan and Occitan: Comparative Test Cases for a Theory of Language Maintenance and Shift; Chapter 5. Case Studies: Tanzania, Peru and Sweden; Chapter 6. Language Revitalization: The Case of Irish |
Chapter 7. Language Regenesis: Language Revival, Revitalization and ReversalChapter 8. Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most countries in the world today are multilingual, that is they contain ethnic groups in contact and not infrequently in competition. Such thinking has held implications for the setting of language policies, from hanging a wooden clog around the neck of a child heard speaking Occitan in Southern France to the considerable budgeting in Ireland for the promotion of Irish.In this book, Paulston |
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