The other languages of Europe : demographic, sociolinguistic and educational perspectives

Author(s)

• Extra, Guus
• Gorter, D. (Durk)

Bibliographic Information

The other languages of Europe : demographic, sociolinguistic and educational perspectives

edited by Guus Extra and Durk Gorter

（Multilingual matters / series editor, Derrick Sharp, 118）

Multilingual Matters, c2001

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographies and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The book offers demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational perspectives on the status of both regional and immigrant languages in Europe and in a wider international context. From a cross-national point of view, empirical evidence on the status of these other languages of multicultural Europe is brought together in a combined frame of reference.

Table of Contents

Preface Guus Extra and Durk Gorter: Comparative Perspectives on Regional and Immigrant Minority Languages in Multicultural Europe Part 1: Regional Languages in Europe Jasone Cenoz: Basque in Spain and France Colin Williams: Welsh in Great Britain Boyd Robertson: Gaelic in Scotland Durk Gorter, Alex Riemersma and Jehannes Ytsma: Frisian in the Netherlands Brigitta Busch: Slovenian in Carinthia Leena Huss: The National Minority Languages in Sweden Anna Ostern: Swedish in Finland Part 2: Immigrant Languages in Europe Sally Boyd: Immigrant Languages in Sweden Ingrid Gogolin and Hans Reich: Immigrant Languages in Federal Germany Tim van der Avoird, Peter Broeder and Guus Extra: Immigrant Minority Languages in the Netherlands Vivian Edwards: Community Languages in the United Kingdom Dominique Caubet: Maghrebine Arabic in France Bernabe Lopez Garcia and Laura Mijares Molina: Moroccan Children and Arabic in Spanish Schools Peter Bakker: Romani in Europe Part 3: Outlook from Abroad John Edwards: Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Canada Reynaldo F. Macias: Minority Languages in the United States, with a Focus on Spanish in California Neville Alexander: Majority and Minority Languages in South Africa Uldis Ozolins and Michael Clyne: Immigration and Language Policy in Australia Amitav Choudhry: Linguistic Minorities in India Kutlay Yagmur: Languages in Turkey Jilali Saib: Berber and Arabic in Morocco Appendices

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BA52716439
• ISBN:
  • 1853595101
  • 1853595098
• LCCN: 00063823
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Clevedon, UK ; Buffalo, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 454 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P119.315
  • DC21 : 408/.6/93094
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Linguistic minorities -- Europe
  • LCSH : Europe -- Languages
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0388721X