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Subject(s)

• Linguistic minorities—Europe [Browse]
• Europe—Languages [Browse]

Related name

• Tamburelli, Marco [Browse]
• Tosco, Mauro [Browse]

Series

Studies in World Language Problems ; 8

Summary note

"This is the first volume entirely dedicated to Contested Languages. While generally listed in international language atlases, Contested Languages usually fall through the cracks of research: excluded from the literature on minority languages and treated as mere ensembles of geographically defined varieties by traditional dialectology. This volume investigates the nature of contested languages, the role language ideologies play in the perception of these languages, the contribution of academic discourse to the formation and perpetuation of language contestedness, and the damage contestedness causes to linguistic communities and ultimately to linguistic diversity. Various situations and degrees of language contestedness are presented and analysed, along with theoretical considerations, exploring potential roads to recognition and issues in language planning that arise from language contestedness. Addressing the "language vs dialect" question head on, the volume opens up new perspectives that are relevant to all students and researchers interested in the maintenance of linguistic diversity"-- Provided by publisher.

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Contents

• Prelim pages
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. What are contested languages and why should linguists care?
• Section 1. The broader picture
• Chapter 2. Contested languages and the denial of linguistic rights in the 21st century
• Chapter 3. Democracy
• Section 2. Identifying and perceiving contested languages
• Chapter 4. Mixing methods in linguistic classification
• Chapter 5. The cost of ignoring degrees of Abstand in defining a regional language
• Chapter 6. Deconstructing the idea of language
• Chapter 7. Surveying the ethnolinguistic vitality of two contested languages
• Chapter 8. Contested orthographies
• Chapter 9. Revitalising contested languages
• Section 3. Working with contestedness
• Chapter 10. Community-based language planning
• Chapter 11. Teaching Piedmontese
• Chapter 12. Publishing a grammar and literature anthology of a contested language
• Chapter 13. Which Sardinian for education?
• Section 4. Beyond contested languages
• Chapter 14. Citizenship and nationality
• Chapter 15. The language ideology of Esperanto
• Index

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ISBN

• 9789027260383
• 9027260389

Doi

• 10.1075/wlp.8

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