Bilingualism and minority languages in Europe : current trends and developments / / edited by Fraser Lauchlan and Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations, maps, tables
• Disciplina: 306.4494
• Soggetto topico: Linguistic minorities - Europe; Bilingualism - Europe
• Persona (resp. second.): LauchlanFraser; CoutoM. Carmen Parafita
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: 1 Bilingualism and minority languages: the current context in Europe / Fraser Lauchlan and M. del Carmen Parafita Couto -- Section A: Attitudes, identity and perceptions towards minority languages -- 2 Contesting the conventionalising of Castilian: the role of Galician parents as counter-elites / Anik Nandi and Ashvin I. Devasundaram -- 3 Practitioner engagement with research in minority language contexts: evidence from research regarding Gaelic medium education / Sarah MacQuarrie and Fiona Lyon -- 4 Extralinguistic factors influencing the pronounciation of English by Welsh-English bilinguals / Charles Wilson and Margaret Deuchar -- 5 Modeling the life and death of cometing languages within populations of speakers from a physical and mathematical perspective / Luís F. Seoane and Jorge Mira -- 6 Attitudes amongst children and thei parents to speaking and learning a minority language in school: perspectives from Scotland and Sardinia / Fraser Lauchlan, Marinella Parisi and Roberta Fadda -- Section B: The benefits of being bilingual in minority language areas -- 7 The linguistic, cognitive and emotional advantages of minority language bilingualism / Nia E. Young Mirain Rhys, Ivan A. Kennedy and Enlli M. Thomas -- 8 Language balance and cognitive advantages in Frisian-Dutch bilingual children / Evelyn Bosma, Elma Blom and Arjen Versloot -- Section C: Grammatical aspects amongst bilinguals and multilinguals in minority language areas -- 9 The nominal domain in Dutch-Papiamento-Spanish multilinguals in the Netherlands / M Carmen Parafita Couto, Rócio Pérez-Tattam and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes -- 10 Subject advantage in the production of relative clauses by Basque speakers in contact with Spanish / Maria José Ezeizabarrena and Amaia Munarriz -- 11 Early minority language acquirers of Spanish exhibit focus-related interface asymmetries: word order alternation and optionality in Spanish-Catalan, Spanish-Galician and Spanish-English bilinguals / Timothy Gupton -- 12 Testing alternative theoretical accounts of code-switching using event-related brain potentials: a pilot study on Welsh-English / M Carmen Parafita Couto, Bastien Boutonnet, Noriko Hoshino, Peredur Davies, Margaret Deuchar and Guillaume Thierry -- 13 Bilingual grammard and the formation of a new language in a minority language setting / Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes and Acrisio Pires.
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection considers such issues as the cognitive, linguistic and emotional benefits of speaking two languages, the perceptions, attitudes and issues relating to identity in minority language areas, and the number of grammatical aspects amongst those who speak these minority languages. The premise of the book is based on the fact that these minority languages have, in the past, been in danger of becoming obsolete, mainly because of negative attitudes regarding the benefits of speaking languages that are considered irrelevant internationally. However, in recent times, the benefits of speaking two languages, including where one is a minority language, have been recognised in ways that were not previously understood. Perhaps because of this, alongside the introduction of legislation in some areas in Europe that has been designed to support the preservation of some of these languages, there has been a re-emergence of many minority languages throughout the continent. Questions remain whether this has led to the languages becoming more widely spoken and whether there are specific benefits that can be gained from speaking them. Exploring these questions has led to an increasing amount of research being undertaken on various aspects of bilingualism in minority language areas in Europe. The book contributes to this debate and underlines the relevance and significance of bilingualism in the specific context where European minority languages are still spoken. --
• Titolo autorizzato: Bilingualism and minority languages in Europe
• ISBN: 1-4438-9166-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910793098903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II