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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910955966403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Clevedon ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, c2001
• ISBN: 9786610827794; 9786610827817; 9781853597103; 9781280827815; 1280827815; 9781853597107; 1853597104
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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.