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Third International Conference on Minority Languages : general papers

edited by Gearóid Mac Eoin, Anders Ahlqvist, and Donncha ÓhAodha

(Multilingual matters / series editor, Derrick Sharp, 31)

Multilingual Matters, c1987

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"Held at University College, Galway, from Friday 20 to Thursday 26 June 1986"--Pref

Includes bibliographies and index

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This volume contains a selection of papers on various aspects, mainly linguistic, of the present day situation of the Celtic languages of Britain and Ireland. The papers were given at the Third International Conference on Minority Languages, which was held in Galway, Ireland in June 1986. A companion volume, entitled Third International Conference on Minority Languages: Celtic Papers is also published by Multilingual Matters Ltd.

Table of Contents

Gearoid Mac Eoin, Anders Ahlqvist and Donncha OhAodha: Preface 1. T.L. Markey: When Minor is Minor and Major is Major: Language Expansion, Contraction and Death 2. John de Vries: Problems of Measurement in the Study of Linguistic Minorities 3. Peter H. Nelde: Language Contact Means Language Conflict 4. Sture Ureland: Language Contact Research in Northern Scandinavia 5. Sven-Erik Hansen: Mother-Tongue Teaching and Identity: The Case of Finland-Swedes 6. Ulla Lauren: The Linguistic Competence of Mono- and Bi-Lingual Pupils in Swedish in the Finland-Swedish School 7. Solveig Stromman: Trade Slang as a Manifestation of Language-Group Relations at Work Places 8. J. Normann Jorgensen: Minority Language Speaking Students' First and Second Language Vocabulary 9. Karen Margrethe Pedersen: German Minority Children in the Danish Border Region: Code-Switching and Interference 10. Durk Gorter: Aspects of Language Choice in the Frisian-Dutch Bilingual Context: Neutrality and Asymmetry 11. Ludwig M. Eichinger and Ralph Jodlbauer: On Comparing Multilingual Societies: The Linguistic Situation of the Slavic Minorities in the Republic of Austria 12. Grace Neville: Minority Languages in Contemporary France 13. John M. Kirk: Auxiliary Verbs, Frequencies, and the Identity of Scots 14. Carolyn Kessler and Mary Euen Quinn: Language Minority Children's Linguistic and Cognitive Creativity 15. Don Cartwright: Accommodation Among the Anglophone Minority in Quebec to Official Language Policy: A Shift in Traditional Patterns of Language Contact Mikael Reuter: Summing up

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