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OverviewThis volume is a compendium of articles on linguistic minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, namely Austria, the Caucasus, the Balkans, the Baltic countries (mainly Latvia), Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Romania and Slovakia. The introduction discusses a theoretical framework of the contextual situations of language maintenance and shift in which we find linguistic minorities and bilingualism. The intention of the other chapters is basically descriptive where each chapter stands alone and can be read simply for the information it contains. If the chapters are considered together, trends and generalizations emerge, with possibilities for model building and theory testing. Our sociolinguistic ignorance of this part of the world is quite astounding and this book is a first step to remedy that situation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christina Bratt Paulston , Donald PeckhamPublisher: Channel View Publications Ltd Imprint: Multilingual Matters Volume: No. 109 Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.493kg ISBN: 9781853594168ISBN 10: 1853594164 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 21 October 1998 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock ![]() Table of ContentsPreface - Christina Bratt Paulston - 1. Linguistic Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe: An Introduction - Christina Bratt Paulston (University of Pittsburgh) - 2. Linguistic Minorities in Austraia - Rudolf de Cillia, Florian Menz, Wolfgang W. Dressler and Petra Cech (Institut fur Sprachwissenschaft, Universitat Wien) - 3. Linguistic Minorities in the Balkans (Albania, Greece, and the successor states of former Yugoslavia) - Hugh Poulton (a Consultant for the Minority Rights Group specialising on the Balkans) - 4. Ethnicity and the Nation: The Bulgarian Dilemma - Bonka Boneva (Bulkarian Academy of Sciences) - 5. Linguistic Minorities in the Caucasus - Sergei Arutunov - 6. Linguistic Communities in the Czech Republik - J. Nekvapil and J.V. Neustupny - 7. Linguistic Minorities in Hungary - Anna Fenyvesi - 8. The Republic of Latvia - Ina Druviete - 9. Romania - Peter Jordan - 10. Multilingual Russia and Its Soviet Heritage - Harald Haarman - 11. Linguistic Minorities in Slovakia - Martin VotrubaReviewsAuthor InformationChristina Bratt Paulston is a professor of linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh. Her academic training has been at Carleton College, University of Minnesota, and Columbia University. She has published in the fields of language teaching, teacher training, language planning, bilingual education, and sociolinguistics. She was President of TESOL in 1976 and trustee of the Center of Applied Linguistics from 1976-81. Don Peckham (MA, University of Pittsburgh, 1995) is a doctoral candidate in linguistics with specialization in second language acquisition at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently an assistant lecturer at Jozsef Attila University in Szeged, Hungary. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |