Language, community and the state
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Bibliographic Information
Language, community and the state
Intellect, 1997
Available at 17 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibriography: p. 89-91
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text examines European languages and the communities using them, from differing points of view. The volume examines: the linguistic classification of the language families used in Europe and traces how they became standard languages; and investigates language shift and the political, social and economic factors that cause communities to adopt a new language. Many have decreed that one language rather than another shall be official, and have special responsibilities in shaping the language chosen: the question of preserving regional and minority languages within the State's borders is addressed with reference to this. As some languages have spread over the entire globe, migration within (and from without) Europe leads the author to consider the value of language as a symbol of identity and the likelihood of voluntary multilingualism, or language peace, in Europe. The book shows that problems communication poses cannot be divorced from the idea of international communication.
Table of Contents
- Speech communities and the standard language - some European standard languages
- the classification of European languages - genetic and typological classification
- language shift - political, social and economic reasons for adopting a new identity
- the language of the State - status and the protection of status
- the State and regional languages - regional languages and regionalism
- spreading the official language outside Europe - winners and losers
- immigration - ethnicity, nationality and Europe
- the impossible dream - Europe, language and language policy.
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