Minority languages and group identity: cases and categories

✍ Scribed by Edwards, John

Publisher: Benjamins
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 241
Edition: Paperback ed
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Chapter 1. An introductory overview
2. Chapter 2. Languages in contact and conflict I: Small languages and their maintenance
3. Chapter 3. Languages in contact and conflict II: Language decline, revival and the 'new' ecology
4. Chapter 4. Parochialism and intercourse
5. Chapter 5. Towards a typology of minority-language settings
6. Chapter 6. Irish
7. Chapter 7. Gaelic in Scotland
8. Chapter 8. Gaelic in Nova Scotia
9. Chapter 9. Esperanto
10. Epilogue
11. References
12. Index

✦ Subjects

Gruppenidentität;Kulturkonflikt;Minderheitensprache;Sprachkontakt;Linguistic minorities;Language attrition;Gruppenidentität

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