Book: Minority languages in the European Union -- pre-1989

[McGinnis, Scott]

Title: Language, Ethnicity and the State
Subtitle: Volume 1: Minority Languages In The European Union
			
Publication Year: 2001
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
           http://www.palgrave.com

Editor: Camille C. O'Reilly

Hardback: ISBN: 033392925X, Pages: 200, Price: $45.00
			
Abstract:
			
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.

CONTENTS:

Introduction: Minority Languages, Ethnicity and the State in the
  European Union; C.O'Reilly
Many Tongues But One Voice: A Personal Overview of the Role of the
  European Bureau of Lesser Used Languages in Promoting Europe's
  Regional and Minority Languages; P-draig O' Riagin
State Language Ideology and the Shifting Nature of Minority Language
  Planning on Corsica; A.Jaffe
Catalan is Everyone's Thing: Normalizing a Nation; S.DiGiacomo
Irish Language, Irish Identity: Northern Ireland and the Republic of
  Ireland in the European Union; C.O'Reilly
Ethnic Identity and Minority Language Survival in Brittany;  L.Timm
When Language Does Not Matter: Regional Identity Formation in Northern
  Italy; J.Stacul
'Old' and 'New' Lesser Used Languages of Europe: Common Cause?;
  T.Cheesman
Bibliography
Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

CAMILLE O. REILLY is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Richmond,
the American International University in London. She is the author of
The Irish Language in Northern Ireland: The Politics and Culture of
Identity and of many articles on nationalism, the Irish language and
Northern Ireland.

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