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Linguistic minorities in multilingual settings : implications for language policies / Christina Bratt Paulston

Paulston, Christina Bratt [Verfasser] [1932-]

Amsterdam [u.a.] : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1994

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xi, 136 pages)

Studies in bilingualism ; v. 4

Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-129) and indexes

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

978-90-272-8281-1 ; 90-272-8281-1 ; 90-272-4104-X

ER 930 ES 132 HD 219 HD 245

 

Sprachliche Minderheit  Mehrsprachigkeit 

The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most countries in the world today are multilingual, that is they contain ethnic groups in contact and not infrequently in competition. Such thinking has held implications for the setting of language policies, from hanging a wooden clog around the neck of a child heard speaking Occitan in Southern France to the considerable budgeting in Ireland for the promotion of Irish. In this book, Paulston presents an analytical framework for explaining and.