Fourth International Conference on Minority Languages: Western and Eastern European papers

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Durk Gorter
Multilingual Matters, 1990 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 197 pages
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A compilation of papers taken from the Fourth International Conference on Minority Languages. While the first volume focused on the more theoretically orientated papers, this volume emphasizes the inventorial or descriptive approach.
 

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Contents

A Social Psychological
11
Which Prospects?
43
Language Maintenance and Viability in the Contemporary
69
Welsh Linguistic Implications
91
A Demolinguistic Analysis of the Basque Autonomous
115
The Importance of Attitudes
135
National Minority Languages in Media and Education in Poland
149
The Siberian Estonians and Language Policy
175
Contents of Volume 1
196
Introduction
197
Copyright

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age groups amongst Gaelic speakers analysis Arabic Aranese areas Asturian attitudes Basque Autonomous Community Basque speaking Belgian Bible translation bilingual Brussels Byelorussian Carinthian Slovenes Catalan census century Church Cornish cultural domains Dutch East Finnish EastFi English ethnic Euskaldunes Euskera evaluation factor families Figure Finland Flemish schools francophone Frisian Fryslan guage Gypsy Hebrew word immigrant indicators integration Karaims Kashubian kindergarten Lainio language death language policy Lemks lexical linguistic Lithuanian Ljouwert vernacular Low German majority Manx minority language Multilingual municipalities native speakers number of children official parents parishes percentage plural Poland Polish political population primary schools published pupils recent region religious respondents Russian Scottish Gaelic situation Slovak Slovincian social sociolinguistic solidarity Soviet Spain Spanish speech spoken status StFi Sweden Finnish Sweden Finns Swedish tion Ukrainian University urban usage levels variable variant varieties villages Wales Warsaw Warszawa Welsh language Wilamowice Wroclaw

About the author (1990)

Durk Gorter is head of the Social Sciences research group at the Fryske Akademy/Universiteit van Amsterdam and part-time professor of Frisian sociolinguistics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He has published on the sociolinguistics of Frisian, minority languages in Europe, trilingual education and language policy.The articles are written by experts on sociolinguistics and applied linguistics who are all involved in the study of multilingualism in its social context.

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TitleFourth International Conference on Minority Languages: Western and Eastern European papers
Volume 2 of Fourth International Conference on Minority Languages
Multilingual matters
EditorDurk Gorter
PublisherMultilingual Matters, 1990
ISBN1853591114, 9781853591112
Length197 pages
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Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Social Science / Minority Studies
  
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