Minority Language Media: Concepts, Critiques and Case Studies

✍ Scribed by Mike Cormack (editor); Niamh Hourigan (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is an international collection of essays by 14 researchers. Included are essays on general topics on minority language media, as well as studies of specific examples. The contributors are all experienced researchers in this field. The book is the first attempt to define and develop minority language media as a distinct field of study.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Studying Minority Language Media
Chapter 2. Functional Completeness in Minority Language Media
Chapter 3. Minority Language Media and the Public Sphere
Chapter 4. The Media and Language Maintenance
Chapter 5. The Role of Networks in Minority Language Television Campaigns
Chapter 6. From Media to Multimedia: Workflows and Language in the Digital Economy
Chapter 7. Speaking Up: A Brief History of Minority Languages and the Electronic Media1Worldwide
Chapter 8. Minority Languages and the Internet: New Threats, New Opportunities
Chapter 9. Linguistic Normalisation and Local Television in the Basque Country
Chapter 10. Media Policy and Language Policy in Catalonia
Chapter 11. The Territory of Television: S4C and the Representation of the ‘Whole of Wales’
Chapter 12. Translation and Minority Language Media: Potential and Problems: An Irish Perspective
Chapter 13. Signs of Change: Sign Language and Televisual Media in the UK
Chapter 14. Minority Language Media Studies: Key Themes for Future Scholarship
Contributors
Index