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Minority languages, national languages, and official language policies / edited by Gillian Lane-Mercier, Denise Merkle, and Jane Koustas.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (viii, 350 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773555877
  • 0773555870
  • 9780773555884
  • 0773555889
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Minority languages, national languages, and official language policies.DDC classification:
  • 306.44/9 23
LOC classification:
  • P119.3.M56
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
  • coll13
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction. Toward an Ethos of Diversity; "Diversity Is Diverse": Complex Diversity and Deep Diversity; 1 Choosing Concepts for Sustainable Diversity Management Policies; Problematizing the Ethos of Diversity: Majority National Languagesand Official Language Policy; 2 Multilingualism without Multiculturalism? The Case of Luxembourg; 3 The Future of Multilingualismin Post-Soviet Central Asia: The Case of Kazakhstan; Protecting and Revitalizing Endangered Traditional Minority Languages; 4 Minority Language Protection in Italy and Local Initiatives to Protect Francoprovençal in Apulia5 Dyw un iaith byth yn ddigon -- One Language Is Never Enough: Language Policy and Translation in Modern Wales
6 International Models of Language Policy and Language Planning: Official Bilingualism in Irelandand Sociolinguistic Reality; Indigenous Languages and Official Language Policy: The Canadian Example; 7 Language, Education, and the Structuring of Canada's Social Sphere; 8 Indigenizing Language Policy in Canada: Redressing Racial Hierarchies in Language and Education; Decolonization and Official Language Policy: The African Example9 The Promotion of Languages in Nigeria: An Example of Problematic Official Multilingualism in Africa; 10 Denying Linguistic and Cultural Pluralismin Algeria: An Official Modelof Diversity Management; Challenging the Limits of Official Language Policy; 11 Challenging the Borders of Nation: Language and Translational Language Policy in the Plurilingual Romani Context; Afterword Diversity Must Remain Diverse; Contributors; Index.
Summary: An examination of the interdisciplinary field of language policy offering a rich collection of new research on diversity and multilingualism.
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An examination of the interdisciplinary field of language policy offering a rich collection of new research on diversity and multilingualism.

Introduction. Toward an Ethos of Diversity; "Diversity Is Diverse": Complex Diversity and Deep Diversity; 1 Choosing Concepts for Sustainable Diversity Management Policies; Problematizing the Ethos of Diversity: Majority National Languagesand Official Language Policy; 2 Multilingualism without Multiculturalism? The Case of Luxembourg; 3 The Future of Multilingualismin Post-Soviet Central Asia: The Case of Kazakhstan; Protecting and Revitalizing Endangered Traditional Minority Languages; 4 Minority Language Protection in Italy and Local Initiatives to Protect Francoprovençal in Apulia5 Dyw un iaith byth yn ddigon -- One Language Is Never Enough: Language Policy and Translation in Modern Wales

6 International Models of Language Policy and Language Planning: Official Bilingualism in Irelandand Sociolinguistic Reality; Indigenous Languages and Official Language Policy: The Canadian Example; 7 Language, Education, and the Structuring of Canada's Social Sphere; 8 Indigenizing Language Policy in Canada: Redressing Racial Hierarchies in Language and Education; Decolonization and Official Language Policy: The African Example9 The Promotion of Languages in Nigeria: An Example of Problematic Official Multilingualism in Africa; 10 Denying Linguistic and Cultural Pluralismin Algeria: An Official Modelof Diversity Management; Challenging the Limits of Official Language Policy; 11 Challenging the Borders of Nation: Language and Translational Language Policy in the Plurilingual Romani Context; Afterword Diversity Must Remain Diverse; Contributors; Index.

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