Linguistic Diversity discussion

[Philippe Blanchet]

"Harold F. Schiffman" a *crit :

> After my recent forwarding of a message from Linguist-List on linguistic
> diversity and its economic benefits, there has developed some discussion
> on this that is now ongoing on Linguist-List.  Rather than trying to
> forward all these messages, I refer members to the URL at Linguist-List:
>
> http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-881.html
>
> If you're not a member, you can join; if you don't want to receive all the
> messages daily, you can join Linguist-List "Lite" and get just
> announcements of messages.
>
> H. Schiffman



For those who can read French (except for one paper in English), the papers
of a symposium about "regional cultures and economical development" (part of
an ongoing research concerning Europe and mainly France) were published last
year. Minority languages are much dealt with in the papers.

ref.: J.-R. Alcaras, Ph. Blanchet et J. Joubert (eds), Cultures régionales et
développement économique, Actes du Congrès d'Avignon (mai 2000) = Annales de
la Faculté de droit d'Avignon, Cahier spécial n°2, Presses Universitaires
d'Aix-Marseille, Avignon/Aix, 2001, 330 p.

Best regards,
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Philippe Blanchet, Professeur des universités
en sociolinguistique et didactique des langues
Directeur du Centre de Recherche sur la Diversité
Linguistique de la Francophonie (CREDILIF, EA 3207)
www.uhb.fr/alc/erellif/credilif/
Université Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne
CS 24 307, 35043 Rennes Cédex (France)
Tél.: [+33] (0) 299 14 15 67
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