Watching One's Tongue: Aspects of Romance and Celtic Languages

Edited by Mairead Nic Craith

Watching One's Tongue: Aspects of Romance and Celtic Languages
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Edited by Mairead Nic Craith

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272 pages | 6 x 9 | © 1996
Liverpool University Press - Studies in European Regional Cultures
Paper $28.50 ISBN: 9780853236214 Published January 1997 For sale in North America only
These essays investigate the challenge of language planning in modern society. Initially, the impact of legislation on a vernacular and the subsequent empowerment of specific speech communities are analyzed. Contributors explore the value of employing a marketing approach for the development and enhancement of an indigenous tongue. Aspects of the status of language in the context of education are then examined, followed by an assessment of the impact of culture contact on social and linguistic intercourse. The concluding chapter considers a theory of endangeredness and seeks to establish the threshold beyond which a language is doomed to extinction. This volume is one of two, edited by Dr. Nic Craith, dealing with language planning in contemporary Europe.
Contents

Preface

List of Illustrations

Contributors

 

Introduction

Máiréad Nic Craith

 

Language Planning in Catalonia

Jordi Ballart

 

Language Policy and Planning in the Balearic Community

Pere Santandreu

 

Language Planning in the Valencian Autonomous Community

Maria Josep Marín

 

Language Planning and Policy in Galicia

Manuel Puga

 

Towards a Language Strategy for North-West Wales

Clive James

 

Which Cornish? Ideology and Language Revival in Post-War Cornwall

Philip Payton

 

Aspects of the Irish Language Movement in Northern Ireland

Aodán Mac Póilin

 

Irish in Northern Ireland: the 1991 Census

Máiréad Nic Craith and Ian Shuttleworth

 

The Dynamics of Scottish Gaelic

Kenneth MacKinnon

 

The Manx Language Today

Brian Stowell

 

Gaelic Influences in Anglo-Manx

Jennifer Kewley-Draskau

 

Appendix 1: Europe, Culture, Language and Regions

Alan Kilday

 

Appendix 2: The Culture and Tourism Research Unit

Ullrich Kockel

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