Author : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287123022
On cover: Treaties and reports
Author : Gerhard Stickel
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9783631603659
The European linguistic diversity goes far beyond the official national languages of the present 27 member states of the European Union. In every country several languages of smaller or larger groups of speakers are used besides the official language or the languages of the majority population. These languages are autochthonous languages that have been used for a long time in the individual country as well as allochthonous languages of different groups of migrants and their descendants. The sometimes complicated relations between national, regional and minority languages within various countries are discussed in this volume. Besides reports on several countries, the general sociolinguistic and legal conditions are dealt with in overview contributions. In addition, the Dublin Declaration on the relationship between official languages and regional and minority languages in Europe is presented in 24 languages.
Author : Jean-Marie Woehrling
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9287155720
The Charter is the only European legal instrument specifically designed to protect and promote regional or minority languages, making it the legal reference framework throughout Europe. This publication sets out an article by article commentary on the charter by one of Europe's leading experts on regional or minority languages, in order to explain the control mechanism's conclusions and to enable critical assessment of them.
Author : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789287152145
The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages has been in force since 1998, but in France it has caused a heated debate and it has not been ratified. The questions raised include: should French regional languages be afforded protection? Is there a danger that their protection could lead to an assertion of regional identity that could threaten the cohesiveness of the state? Is there a threat to the official language? Can applying the principles of the charter, without going through the ratification process, effectively protect regional or minority languages? This colloquy sought to provide answers to these questions.
Author : Council of Europe. Directorate of Environment and Local Authorities
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287137753
Author : Cecilio Lapresta-Rey
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1788923324
This book explores how different European education systems manage multilingualism. Each chapter focuses on one of ten diverse settings (Andorra, Asturias, the Basque Country, Catalonia, England, Finland, France, Latvia, the Netherlands and Romania) and considers how its education system is influenced by historical, sociolinguistic and legislative and political processes and how languages are handled within the system, stressing the challenges and opportunities in each area of study. The chapters provide the reader with insights around three key aspects: the management of the guarantee of the rights of regional language minorities; the incorporation of the language background inherited by immigrants living in Europe (whether they are European citizens or not) and the need to promote the learning of international languages. Individually, the chapters offer deep insights into a specific education system and, together, the studies allow for a comparison and holistic understanding of multilingualism in European education.
Author : Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1057 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 2024-07-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192634410
This volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on the French language in all its facets. It offers a wide-ranging approach to the rich, varied, and exciting research across multiple subfields, with seven broad thematic sections covering the structures of French; the history of French; axes of variation; French around the world; French in contact with other languages; second language acquisition; and French in literature, culture, arts, and the media. Each chapter presents the state of the art and directs readers to canonical studies and essential works, while also exploring cutting-edge research and outlining future directions. The Oxford Handbook of the French Language serves both as a reference work for people who are curious to know more about the French language and as a starting point for those carrying out new research on the language and its many varieties. It will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students as well as established scholars, whether they are specialists in French linguistics or researchers in a related field looking to learn more about the language. The diversity of frameworks, approaches, and scholars in the volume demonstrates above all the variety, vitality, and vibrancy of work on the French language today.
Author : Francesc Feliu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027254982
National linguistic ideology has been at the base of most historical processes that –whether they are complete or not – have brought us to the current reality: a world of languages that represent, with greater or lesser exactitude, the diversity – and convergences – of human groups. Various of today’s thinkers have predicted the decline or even the end of national ideologies. In the area of language, postmodernism would make the linguistic affiliation of the community individuals irrelevant, de-ideologise language use, and extend plurilingualism and language alternation in association with a new distribution of (physical or functional) spaces of linguistic practice. But is this true everywhere? Are languages now nowhere the core of collective identity? Or are we witnessing a distinction between languages that, because of their magnitude, status, strategic position, etc., can continue to exercise the function of national languages and languages that have to renounce this function? Has national linguistic ideology really ceased to make sense? What other strategies should the historic language of a given geographic area employ if it wants to continue forming part of the life of the community that is set up there? What kinds of languages are desired by politicians, intellectuals and philologists? This book aims to bring some thoughts about these questions.
Author : Catrin Norrby
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 31,62 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847694454
This book brings together current research by leading international scholars on the often contentious nature of language policies and their practical outcomes in North America, Australia and Europe. It presents a range of perspectives from which to engage with a variety of pressing issues raised by multilingualism, multiculturalism, immigration, exclusion, and identity.
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 24,88 MB
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1351597094
Volume 1 of African Languages include articles originally published in 1975 and written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, historical and socio-linguistic aspects of language in Africa, as well as descriptive and comparative studies. Among others there are chapters on African oral literature, the standardization of languages and education in Nigeria and a description of Shona spelling.
