Other Languages of Europe Demographic, Sociolinguistic and Educational Perspectives
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Guus Extra is director of Babylon, Center for Studies of Multilingualism in the Multicultural Society at Tilburg University (the Netherlands) and professor of language and minorities at the same university.
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.
Preface
Guus Extra and Durk Gorter: Comparative Perspectives on Regional and Immigrant Minority Languages in Multicultural Europe
Part 1: Regional Languages in Europe
Jasone Cenoz: Basque in Spain and France
Colin Williams: Welsh in Great Britain
Boyd Robertson: Gaelic in Scotland
Durk Gorter, Alex Riemersma and Jehannes Ytsma: Frisian in the Netherlands
Brigitta Busch: Slovenian in Carinthia
Leena Huss: The National Minority Languages in Sweden
Anna Østern: Swedish in Finland
Part 2: Immigrant Languages in Europe
Sally Boyd: Immigrant Languages in Sweden
Ingrid Gogolin and Hans Reich: Immigrant Languages in Federal Germany
Tim van der Avoird, Peter Broeder and Guus Extra: Immigrant Minority Languages in the Netherlands
Vivian Edwards: Community Languages in the United Kingdom
Dominique Caubet: Maghrebine Arabic in France
Bernabé López García and Laura Mijares Molina: Moroccan Children and Arabic in Spanish Schools
Peter Bakker: Romani in Europe
Part 3: Outlook from Abroad
John Edwards: Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Canada
Reynaldo F. Macías: Minority Languages in the United States, with a Focus on Spanish in California
Neville Alexander: Majority and Minority Languages in South Africa
Uldis Ozolins and Michael Clyne: Immigration and Language Policy in Australia
Amitav Choudhry: Linguistic Minorities in India
Kutlay Yagmur: Languages in Turkey
Jilali Saíb: Berber and Arabic in Morocco
Appendices
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Guus Extra is director of Babylon, Center for Studies of Multilingualism in the Multicultural Society at Tilburg University (the Netherlands) and professor of language and minorities at the same university.
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.