Overview
Throughout Europe many minority languages, once threatened by ignorance, indifference and intolerance, began to experience some revitalization, but now face new threats from increased integration. This book discusses these issues with vivid, up-to-date examples from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, from Ireland to Turkey.
Full Product Details
Author: S Pertot ,
T Priestly ,
C. Williams
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.577kg
ISBN: 9780230203563
ISBN 10: 0230203566
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 19 December 2008
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
WYNFORD BELLIN is a Senior Lecturer, Cardiff School of Social Science, UK CHIARA BENATI teaches Germanic Philology, German and Scandinavian Language History at the University of Genoa, Italy SARA BREZIGAR is a Researcher at the Institute for Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia DOUGLAS CHALMERS is an Economics Lecturer in the Cultural Business Division, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK DANIEL CUNLIFFE is a Senior Lecturer in Multimedia Computing and leads the Computing and Minority Languages Research Group within the Faculty of Advanced Technology at the University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, UK GIOVANNI DEPAU is at the 'Centre de Dialectologie', University of Grenoble, France ANDREW DEERE is a Researcher in the Computing and Minority Languages Research Group within the Faculty of Advanced Technology at the University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, UK FERNAND DE VARENNES is a former Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Human Rights and the Prevention of Ethnic Conflict and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law. He is Senior (Non-Resident) Research Associate at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany MARTIN EHALA is Professor of General and Applied Linguistics, Tallinn University, Estonia ANNA GHIMENTON is a doctorate student and a member of the LIDILEM Centre, Grenoble University, France CATRIN FFLUR HUWS is a Lecturer, Department of Law and Criminology, Aberystwyth University, UK WILSON MCLEOD is a Senior Lecturer in Celtic, University of Edinburgh, UK MARCO STOLFO works as manager of the Office for Linguistic Identities and Emigration, Regional Government of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy TOMASZ WICHERKIEWICZ is Adjunct Professor and Head of the Department of Language Policy& Minority Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland COLIN H. WILLIAMS is a Research Professor in the School of Welsh, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK BIRGER WINSA is a member of the Department of Baltic, German and Finnish at Stockholm University, Sweden
