LEADER 04888nam 22007335 450 001 9911034863403321 005 20251021130537.0 010 $a3-032-03308-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-032-03308-6 035 $a(CKB)41696348700041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32372236 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32372236 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-032-03308-6 035 $a(EXLCZ)9941696348700041 100 $a20251021d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOfficial Language Regimes $eTransformation and Innovation /$fby Colin H. Williams 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (441 pages) 225 1 $aLanguage and Globalization,$x2947-7514 311 08$a3-032-03307-1 327 $aChapter 1: The Transformation of Official Bilingual Regimes -- Chapter 2: Canada?s Enduring Linguistic Duality -- Chapter 3: Canada: The Evolution of the Institutional Frame -- Chapter 4: Ireland: Interventionist Agencies and Strategies -- Chapter 5: Welsh Initiatives Promoting Language Use Opportunities and Outcomes -- Chapter 6: The Basque Autonomous Community: The Vision and the Obligation -- Chapter 7: Catalan Convictions -- Chapter 8: The Digital Impress -- Chapter 9: Conclusion. 330 $a"In this volume renowned sociolinguist Colin H. Williams offers a fascinating exploration of Official Language Regimes. Drawing on decades of comparative research across diverse contexts, he analyses their evolution, challenges, and opportunities in Canada and for minority languages like Irish, Welsh, Basque, and Catalan. He provides fundamental insights into managing language diversity, addressing power relations, and democracy, offering proposals for improvement of language equality among new challenges like migration, information technology, and artificial intelligence.." ?Prof. Durk Gorter, Professor Emeritus at University of the Basque Country ?This volume is another tour de force from Colin Williams who examines current developments in official bilingual language regimes with a detailed comparative analysis of the ideology, capacity and policy interventions of government agencies from Canada, Ireland and Wales to the Basque Autonomous Community and Catalonia. This excellent book will be essential reading for language policy makers, postgraduates, researchers and language planning practitioners.? ?Dr Katheryn Jones, Iaith: Center for Language Planning This volume has two aims: first, to interpret long-term structural/systemic transformations in the maturation of a specific type of language regime (those with a majoritarian state language and an officially designated minority language); and secondly, to identify and evaluate instances of good practice policy interventions which strengthen the promotion, protection and regulation of selected target languages in Western Europe and Canada. The interviews and documentary analysis within the book were carried out in eight jurisdictions ranging from Canada to Catalonia together with several international organisations and networks, and together they provide an authoritative set of insights into the process of constructing and managing such regimes. This book will be of interest to readers in a variety of fields, including Sociolinguistics, Language Policy, Human Geography, Multilingualism, Regional Development Planning, Celtic and European Studies. Colin H. Williams is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Welsh at Cardiff University and VHI Senior Research Associate at St Edmund?s College, University of Cambridge, UK. . 410 0$aLanguage and Globalization,$x2947-7514 606 $aSociolinguistics 606 $aLanguage policy 606 $aMultilingualism 606 $aHuman geography 606 $aEthnology 606 $aEthnology$zEurope 606 $aCulture 606 $aSociolinguistics 606 $aLanguage Policy and Planning 606 $aMultilingualism 606 $aHuman Geography 606 $aEthnography 606 $aEuropean Culture 615 0$aSociolinguistics. 615 0$aLanguage policy. 615 0$aMultilingualism. 615 0$aHuman geography. 615 0$aEthnology. 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aCulture. 615 14$aSociolinguistics. 615 24$aLanguage Policy and Planning. 615 24$aMultilingualism. 615 24$aHuman Geography. 615 24$aEthnography. 615 24$aEuropean Culture. 676 $a306.4494 700 $aWilliams$b Colin H$080210 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911034863403321 996 $aOfficial Language Regimes$94448680 997 $aUNINA