36.2499, Books: Language Policy and the New Speaker Challenge: Williams (2025)

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Subject: 36.2499, Books: Language Policy and the New Speaker Challenge: Williams (2025)

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Date: 26-Aug-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Language Policy and the New Speaker Challenge: Williams (2025)


Title: Language Policy and the New Speaker Challenge
Subtitle: Hiding in Plain Sight
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/language-policy-and-new-speaker-challenge-hiding-plain-sight?format=PB&isbn=9781009048392

Author(s): Colin H. Williams

Paperback ISBN:  9781009048392 Pages:  392 Price: U.K. £ 26.99
Paperback ISBN:  9781009048392 Pages:  392 Price: Europe EURO 31.50
Paperback ISBN:  9781009048392 Pages:  392 Price: U.S. $ 34.99

Abstract:

'New speakers' is a term used to describe those who have learnt a
minority language not within their home or community settings, but
through bilingual education, immersion or migration. Looking
specifically at the impact of new speakers on language policy, this
book provides an authoritative and detailed examination of minority
language policy in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Basque Autonomous
Community, Navarre, Catalonia and Galicia. Based on interviews with
politicians, senior civil servants, academics and civil society
activists, it assesses the extent to which interventions derived from
a new speakers' perspective has been incorporated into official
language practice. It describes several challenges faced by new
speakers, before proposing specific recommendations on how to
integrate them into established minority language communities.
Shedding new light on the deeper issues faced by minority language
communities, it is essential reading for students and researchers in
sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, language education,
bi- and multilingualism.

Written In: English (eng)



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