Language Ethnicity And The State Volume 2

Author : C. O'Reilly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781403914187

Get Book

Language, Ethnicity and the State, Volume 2 by C. O'Reilly Pdf

The political and social upheavals following 1989 have had a significant impact on the minority languages of Eastern Europe. There have been attempts at enlightened treatment of minority linguistic groups in some of the new states but in others such groups have been openly oppressed. This volume draws on sociologically and ethnographically oriented work from a number of disciplines to allow the reader to compare developments in the different states, and to examine the interplay of language issues, ethnic nationalism, and processes of state formation and restructuring in the various political and historical contexts of Central and Eastern Europe. A companion volume (0-333-92925-X) examines the status of minority languages in the European Union.

Author : C. O'Reilly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230504639

Get Book

Language, Ethnicity and the State, Volume 1 by C. O'Reilly Pdf

Developments in the European Union over the last decade have been largely positive from the perspective of stateless and minority ethnic groups and the survival and prosperity of minority languages. This selection of sociologically and ethnographically oriented work enables the reader to compare developments in different ethno-linguistic revival movements within the European Union. The contributions also explore the impact of EU policy and discourse on the individual movements and the orientation of Western Europe as a whole towards linguistic heterogeneity and cultural diversity. A companion volume (0-333-92924-1) examines the status of minority languages in post-1989 Eastern Europe.

Author : William Safran,J.A. Laponce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317983842

Get Book

Language, Ethnic Identity and the State by William Safran,J.A. Laponce Pdf

This new study powerfully asserts the pivotal importance of the interplay between language and ethnicity, which is often underestimated as a component for political stability. These leading scholars present five key case studies of South Africa, Algeria, Canada, Latvia and Senegal. All five countries are multilingual nations where language has been a central political issue that has challenged their unity and stability. These studies are underpinned by two general, comparative and theoretical discussions, which analyse how scholars consider social class and economic factors to be the primary sources for political cohesion or of malcontent with the system and the new avenues opened by a focus on issues of langauge. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of linguistics, language, politics and sociology. This is a special issue of the leading journal Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.

Author : William Safran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : OCLC:315102775

Get Book

Language, Ethnic Identity, and the State by William Safran Pdf

Author : Stephen May
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015074054100

Get Book

Language and Minority Rights by Stephen May Pdf

In this provocative and ground-breaking book, Stephen May argues for a non-essentialist understanding of language rights, while at the same time outlining why language rights, particularly for minority groups, are defensible and important, both academically and politically. May argues that the causes of many of the language-based conflicts in the world today lie with the nation-state and its preoccupation with establishing a 'common' language and culture via mass education. The solution, he suggests, is to rethink nation-states in more culturally and linguistically plural ways while avoiding, at the same time, essentialising the language-identity link.Language and Minority Rights - a benchmark volume in the field of language rights and language policy - is an outstanding interdisciplinary analysis which draws together debates on language from widely different academic fields, including the sociology of language, ethnicity and nationalism, sociolinguistics, social and political theory, education, history and law, illustrating these debates via a wealth of different national contexts and examples. It is essential reading for students, teachers and researchers in the sociology of language, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, language policy and planning, sociology, politics, and education.

Author : Guus Extra,Durk Gorter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110208351

Get Book

Multilingual Europe by Guus Extra,Durk Gorter Pdf

This book offers an inclusive perspective on the constellation of languages in Europe by taking into account official state languages, regional minority languages and immigrant minority languages. Although "celebrating linguistic diversity" is one of the key propositions in the European discourse on multilingualism and language policies, this device holds for these three types of languages in a decreasing order. All three types of languages, however, are constituent parts of a multilingual European identity and should be taken into account in any type of language policy. Both facts and policies on multilingualism and plurilingual education are addressed in case studies at the national and European level. The selection of case studies is based on a careful weighing of geographical spread of countries and languages across Europe on the one hand, and availability of established expert knowledge on the other. After an Introduction to the theme of the book (Guus Extra and Durk Gorter), Part I deals with official state languages with a focus on the spread of English as lingua franca across Europe (Juliane House), on French and France (Dennis Ager), on Polish in Poland and abroad (Justyna Lesniewśka), and on language constellations in the Baltic States (Gabrielle Hogan-Brun). Part II deals with regional minority languages with a focus on Catalan in Spain (Francesc Xavier Vila i Moreno), Frisian in the Netherlands (Durk Gorter et al.), Hungarian as a minority language in Central Europe (Susan Gal), and Saami in the Nordic countries (Mikael Svonni). Part III deals with immigrant minority languages in the United Kingdom (Viv Edwards), Sweden (Lilian Nygren-Junkin), Italy (Monica Barni and Carla Bagna) and Europe at large (Guus Extra and Kutlay Yağmur).

Author : Carmen Fought
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139458177

Get Book

Language and Ethnicity by Carmen Fought Pdf

What is ethnicity? Is there a 'white' way of speaking? Why do people sometimes borrow features of another ethnic group's language? Why do we sometimes hear an accent that isn't there? This lively overview, first published in 2006, reveals the fascinating relationship between language and ethnic identity, exploring the crucial role it plays in both revealing a speaker's ethnicity and helping to construct it. Drawing on research from a range of ethnic groups around the world, it shows how language contributes to the social and psychological processes involved in the formation of ethnic identity, exploring both the linguistic features of ethnic language varieties and also the ways in which language is used by different ethnic groups. Complete with discussion questions and a glossary, Language and Ethnicity will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, as well as anybody interested in ethnic issues, language and education, inter-ethnic communication, and the relationship between language and identity.

Author : David G. Nicholls
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603292399

Get Book

Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures by David G. Nicholls Pdf

The third edition of the MLA's widely used Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures features sixteen new essays by leading scholars. Designed to highlight relations among languages and forms of discourse, the volume is organized into three sections. "Understanding Language" provides an overview of the field of linguistics, with special attention to language acquisition and the social life of languages. "Forming Texts" offers tools for understanding how speakers and writers shape language; it examines scholarship in the distinct but interrelated fields of rhetoric, composition, and poetics. "Reading Literature and Culture" continues the work of the first two sections by introducing major areas of critical study. The nine essays in this section cover textual and historical scholarship; interpretation; comparative, cultural, and translation studies; and the interdisciplinary topics of gender, sexuality, race, and migrations (among others). As in previous volumes, an epilogue examines the role of the scholar in contemporary society. Each essay discusses the significance, underlying assumptions, and limits of an important field of inquiry; traces the historical development of its subject; introduces key terms; outlines modes of research now being pursued; postulates future developments; and provides a list of suggestions for further reading. This book will interest any member of the academic community seeking a review of recent scholarship, while it provides an indispensable resource for undergraduate and graduate students of modern languages and literatures.

Author : Konrad Siekierski,Stefan Troebst
Publisher : Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783412501556

Get Book

Armenians in Post-Socialist Europe by Konrad Siekierski,Stefan Troebst Pdf

This volume presents articles on the modern Armenian diaspora in post-socialist Europe, including the Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine. Specialists from the fields of cultural anthropology, sociology, and area studies offer their insights into current developments of Armenian communities which, although located within common post-socialist time-space, differ from one another significantly in terms of their historical background, identity politics, and socio-cultural characteristics.

Author : Ioan Pop-Curşeu,Ștefana Pop-Curșeu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031152221

Get Book

Witchcraft in Romania by Ioan Pop-Curşeu,Ștefana Pop-Curșeu Pdf

This book provides a history of witchcraft in the territories that compose contemporary Romania, with a focus on the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The first part presents aspects of earthly justice, religious and secular, analysing the codes of law, trials and verdicts, and underlining the differences between Transylvania on one hand, and Moldavia and Wallachia on the other. The second part is concerned with divine justice, describing apocalyptic texts that talk about the pains of witches in hell, but also the ensembles of religious painting where, in vast compositions of the Last Judgment, various punishments for the sin of witchcraft are imagined.

Author : Aneta Pavlenko
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847690876

Get Book

Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries by Aneta Pavlenko Pdf

In the past two decades, post-Soviet countries have emerged as a contested linguistic space, where disagreements over language and education policies have led to demonstrations, military conflicts and even secession. This collection offers an up-to-date comparative analysis of language and education policies and practices in post-Soviet countries.

Author : J. Adrey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230583986

Get Book

Discourse and Struggle in Minority Language Policy Formation by J. Adrey Pdf

The author presents a new approach to the study of language policy, by focusing on language policy formation and implementation as a dynamic, conflict-laden process involving the interaction of various actors with different motivations and uneven bargaining powers, rather than as a product , examinable post hoc from existing language legislation.

Author : Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780195124286

Get Book

Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity by Joshua A. Fishman Pdf

Since the "ethnic revival" of the last twenty years, there has been a substantial and interdisciplinary change in our understanding of the link between these fundamental aspects of our identity.

Author : Carl Dixon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004517080

Get Book

The Paulicians by Carl Dixon Pdf

In a searching challenge to the paradigm of medieval Christian dualism, this study reenvisions the Paulicians as largely conventional Christians engendered by complex socio-religious forces in the borderlands of Armenia and Asia Minor.

Author : Emeritus at Yeshiva University Joshua A. Fishman Distinguished University Research Professor of Social Sciences
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780199728206

Get Book

Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity by Emeritus at Yeshiva University Joshua A. Fishman Distinguished University Research Professor of Social Sciences Pdf

This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the connection between language and ethnicity. Since the "ethnic revival" of the last twenty years, there has been a substantial and interdisciplinary change in our understanding of the connection between these fundamental aspects of our identity. The distinguished sociolinguist Joshua Fishman has commissioned over 25 previously unpublished papers on every facet of the subject. The volume is divided into two sections, the first examining disciplinary perspectives on the subject; the second uses the prism of geography, looking at the subject in the context of Africa, Scandinavia, Germany and the rest of Western Europe, North America and elsewhere. The volume is truly interdisciplinary and the contributors are all distinguished figures in their fields. Each chapter is followed by thought provoking questions and essential bibliography, and Fishman pulls together the various views that have been expressed and shows how they differ and how they are alike.The volume is useful as a scholarly reference, a resource for the lay reader, and can also be used as a text in ethnicity courses.