Towards Openly Multilingual Policies and Practices (eBook)

Assessing Minority Language Maintenance Across Europe

Johanna Laakso, Anneli Sarhimaa, Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark, Reetta Toivanen (Autoren)

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2016
Channel View Publications (Verlag)
9781783094974 (ISBN)

Infos

This book investigates the maintenance of multilingualism and minority languages in 12 different minority communities across Europe. The authors argue that legislation and institutional and educational support provide no guarantee for minority language maintenance, surmising that changes in attitudes and language ideologies are the key.

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This book investigates the maintenance of multilingualism and minority languages in 12 different minority communities across Europe, all of which are underrepresented in international minority language studies. The book presents a number of case studies covering a broad range of highly diverse minorities and languages with different historical and socio-political backgrounds. Despite current legislation and institutional and educational support, the authors surmise there is no guarantee for the maintenance of minority languages, suggesting changes in attitudes and language ideologies are the key to promoting true multilingualism. The book also introduces a new tool, the European Language Vitality Barometer, for assessing the maintenance of minority languages on the basis of survey data. The book is based on the European Language Diversity for All (ELDIA) research project which was funded by the European Commission (7th framework programme, 2010-2013).

Autor

lt;p>Johanna Laakso is Professor of Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests include Finno-Ugric languages, historical linguistics, language contact and gender linguistics.

Anneli Sarhimaa is Professor of Northern European and Baltic languages at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany. She is Vice-President of ELEN (European Language Equality Network). Her research interests include sociolinguistics, contact linguistics and language policies.

Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark is Associate Professor of International Law, Director and Head of Research at the The Åland Islands Peace Institute, Finland. Her research interests include international law, diversity, law and politics, and peace and conflict resolution.

Reetta Toivanen is Academy of Finland Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor for social and cultural anthropology at the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki, Finland. She is interested in human rights, minorities, power, identity politics and ethnography.

 

Inhalt

Tables and Figures          

To the Reader  

1. Introduction

2. European Language Vitality Barometer – A Novel Tool for Measuring the Degree of Language Maintenance at Group Level

3. Apples, Oranges, and Cranberries: Finno-Ugric Minorities in Europe and the Diversity of Diversities

4. Analysis

5. Implications and Recommendations: What Should We Do to Maintain Language Diversity in Europe?

Afterword

About the authors

References

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.3.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
• Reihe/Serie: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: European Language Diversity for All • European Language Vitality Barometer • Finno-Ugric languages • Language legislation • Language Policy • Minority language maintenance • minority languages • Multilingualism
• ISBN-13: 9781783094974 / 9781783094974