LANGUAGE, ETHNICITY AND THE STATE

[Harold F. Schiffman]

Forward:  review of

LANGUAGE, ETHNICITY AND THE STATE
Volume 1: Minority Languages In The European Union

Edited by Camille C. O'Reilly

ABOUT THE BOOK

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
comprehensive 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.

KEY POINTS

1.  The most comprehensive edited collection available on the
linguistic-ethnographic issue

2.  Topic of minority languages and ethnic identity of great current
relevance and importance, and is a growing research area

3.  Probability of expansion of the EU makes this volume all the more
relevant and timely

CONTENTS

Introduction
Minority Languages, Ethnicity and the State in the European Union by
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 by D..Riagin
State Language Ideology and the Shifting Nature of Minority Language
Planning on Corsica by A.Jaffe
Catalan is Everyone's Thing: Normalizing a Nation by S.DiGiacomo
Irish Language, Irish Identity: Northern Ireland and the Republic of
Ireland
in the European Union by C.O'Reilly
Ethnic Identity and Minority Language Survival in Brittany by L.Timm
When Language Does Not Matter: Regional Identity Formation in Northern
Italy
by J.Stacul
'Old' and 'New' Lesser Used Languages of Europe: Common Cause? by
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


Published by Palgrave
September 2001  200 pp  216x138mm
Hardback  42.50  $62.00  0-333-92925-X


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