NOVES SL, Hivern 2002 / NOVES SL, Winter 2002

[Solis Obiols, Marina]

> NOVES SL, Journal of Sociolinguistics. Winter 2002. Barcelone: Directorate
> General for Language Policy, Department of Culture, Government of
> Catalonia, ISSN 1695-3711.
> 
> Articles in Catalan and in English. Also pdf version.
> 
> Announced at http://cultura.gencat.net/llengcat/noves/index.htm
> 
> CONTENTS
> 
> Noves SL Winter 2002 starts a new editorial line since the review released
> in autumn 2000 its first electronic issue. This new line aims to submit to
> our readers a series of monographic approaches to several subjects in
> order to give a more in-depth complete picture of what is going on in
> different sociolinguistic domains. 
> 
> The interest of this monography lays in the fact that we want to inform
> about all the sociolinguistic studies carried out or promoted by public
> institutions during the nineties and which contain mainly official data
> about use, knowledge and attitudes of the population of the
> afore-mentionned territories, taking into account the language targeted by
> the language policies in every sociolinguistic situation: Catalan for the
> governments of Andorra, Balearic Islands and Catalonia; Basque for the
> autonomous government of the Basque Country; Galician for the Xunta of
> Galicia [autonomous government of Galicia] and Latvian for the government
> of Latvia. 
> 
> 
> As for the sociolinguistic studies promoted by public institutions in the
> Catalan-speaking territories, we would like to stress what follows: on the
> one hand, the excellent article of Joan-Albert Villaverde (Directorate
> General for Language Policy), where the author gives an exhaustive state
> of the question about the studies refering to knowledge and uses in the
> Balearic Islands, both from the institutional approach and from the
> university domain. The appendix of the article is also worthnoting for
> those interested in the sociolinguistic reality of the Balearic Islands as
> far as it includes detailed bibliographic information about the studies
> reviewed; we also stress the interest of the references made to the
> sociolinguistic map of the Balearic Islands, whose first data should be
> released soon. 
> http://cultura.gencat.net/llengcat/noves/hm02hivern/catalana/a_villa1_5.ht
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> 
> On the other hand, from the Service for Language Policy (SLP) of the
> government of Andorra, Marta Pujol and Montserrat Badia have written an
> interesting article which enlights the will of the government of Andorra
> to know better the situation of languages in the country and, especially,
> that of the Catalan language, by means of sociolinguistic studies aiming
> to change this reality -from the results obtained- leading to the setting
> up of concrete actions of language policy. In that respect, the article
> shows a clear exposition and a very useful information where are also
> stated the future guidelines for the SLP which is currently promoting
> studies about linguistic uses among young people and the factors
> determining these uses. 
> http://cultura.gencat.net/llengcat/noves/hm02hivern/catalana/a_pujol1_4.ht
> m
> 
> 
> As for Catalonia, the article of Joan Maria Romaní (Directorate General
> for Language Policy-DGLP) is a detailed and meticulous review of all the
> studies promoted and commissioned by the DGLP since 1994 up to now, where
> the author describes the project regarding the data base about the studies
> of the DGLP -very useful for both readers and researchers--, as well as an
> appendix including complete bibliographic references of all the studies
> commissioned and promoted and an explanation about how to get an easy
> access to them in the Documentation Centre in Sociolinguistics of the
> DGLP.
> http://cultura.gencat.net/llengcat/noves/hm02hivern/catalana/a_romani1_4.h
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> 
> As for other communities in Spain, the reader can know more in detail the
> state of the question regarding the objectives and the implementation of
> sociolinguistic studies promoted by the Vice-ministry of Language Policy
> of the Basque Government, which aim to a policy of positive discrimination
> towards Basque; from the concise and explanatory article of Miren Mateo
> and Xabier Aizpurua, we want to stress the interesting reflection about
> the need of elaborating a system of linguistic indicators to evaluate the
> results of the studies promoted by the vice-ministry, as well as the
> description and explanation of the results of these studies. To facilitate
> the reseach and consultation, you can find in the website of the
> Vice-ministry of language policy a complete listing of published studies,
> which are also reviewed as bibliographic references in the appendix.
> http://cultura.gencat.net/llengcat/noves/hm02hivern/internacional/a_miren1
> _3.htm
> 
> From Galicia, we received a paper from the research team of the Seminar of
> Sociolinguistics of the Real Academia Galega. This task force has been
> taking part -and still does- in the design and implementation of the most
> relevant sociolinguistic studies promoted by the Galician government -as
> for example the Sociolinguistic Map of Galicia (MSG)--, which is reviewed
> and explained in this highly rigorous and objective article. The research
> team, made up of 10 members, informs about the methodology and attitudinal
> results of a qualitative study which is still being carried out for the
> moment, although they have already released the first results refering to
> linguistic attitudes, which differ -with relevant resistences towards the
> linguistic normalization of Galician--, from those obtained from the MSG,
> a large quantitative study carried out in the nineties. 
> http://cultura.gencat.net/llengcat/noves/hm02hivern/internacional/a_galego
> 1_4.htm
> 
> 
> Finally, and as already stated above, we have had the will to focuse on
> sociolinguistic studies promoted by the government of some candidate
> country to the EU. From Latvia, Aija Priedite's contribution is an
> approach to the sociolinguistic situation of her country after the
> independence of 1991 by means of the description and explanation of the
> objectives, design, implementation and evaluation of a specific programme
> devoted to the learning of Latvian, within the new framework where Latvian
> is now the official language of the country and Russian has been dismissed
> from official uses. At the end of the paper, the reader will find a link
> to the sociolinguistic studies promoted by the Latvian government since
> 1991. 
> http://cultura.gencat.net/llengcat/noves/hm02hivern/internacional/a_letoni
> a1_3.htm
> 
> 
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