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Language Awareness and Minority Languages
2015Providing an overview of ideas about as well as practices aiming at the promotion of minority languages at school through fostering pupils’ language awareness, this chapter starts with a sketch of some early developments in the scholarly interest in language awareness related to minority languages.
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Language Minorities and Language Maintenance
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997The position of minority groups and the maintenance of their languages are very much in the news today. For (largely) indigenous minorities, consider the case of continental Europe: As it moves—sometimes erratically—towards federalism, its minorities and its “stateless” peoples are pressing for increased and improved recognition.
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2006
The relationship between minorities and language is complicated and related to the development of nation-states. Language minorities, as a social group, are distinguished from minority languages. The definition of minority is problematic. The size of a minority can differ widely. For membership, there is the issue of who counts as a speaker.
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The relationship between minorities and language is complicated and related to the development of nation-states. Language minorities, as a social group, are distinguished from minority languages. The definition of minority is problematic. The size of a minority can differ widely. For membership, there is the issue of who counts as a speaker.
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Language choice in a minority school
International Review of Education, 1985This article arises from fieldwork in a school of the German minority in South Jutland, Denmark. The minority exists as a result of frontier changes between Germany and Denmark, most recently in 1920. A referendum held in that year as a result of the Treaty of Versailles left a cultural and linguistic minority which, by today, has its own school system,
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The State of Minority Languages
1995In many respects, the state of minority languages reflects the dynamics of the society at large. On the eve of the year 2000, many minority languages are threatened by rapid modernisation and urbanisation; we see languages in decline for the simple reason that speakers have to reconsider language choice when entering larger social, political and ...
Fase, W., Jaspaert, K., Kroon, S.
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The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law
Sign languages have historically been excluded from legal frameworks designed to protect linguistic diversity, such as the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages (the Charter). While the Charter aims to safeguard regional and minority languages, sign languages have been omitted due to misconceptions about their linguistic status, their ...
Rob Wilks, Filipe Venade de Sousa
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Sign languages have historically been excluded from legal frameworks designed to protect linguistic diversity, such as the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages (the Charter). While the Charter aims to safeguard regional and minority languages, sign languages have been omitted due to misconceptions about their linguistic status, their ...
Rob Wilks, Filipe Venade de Sousa
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Current Issues in Language Planning, 2004
(2004). Language Planning and Terminological Development for Minority Languages and Minority Language Situations: A Selected Bibliography. Current Issues in Language Planning: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 176-180.
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(2004). Language Planning and Terminological Development for Minority Languages and Minority Language Situations: A Selected Bibliography. Current Issues in Language Planning: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 176-180.
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Abstract This work seeks to understand how the languages of minorities in India have been constructed and understood throughout colonialism and nationalist periods up to the present day. By using certain examples, the work also attempts to chart how concepts and practices of orality and writing, the concept of the vernacular, and the ...
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Official Language, Minority Language, No Language at All
Language Problems and Language Planning, 1999RÉSUMÉ Langue officielle, langue minoritaire, pas de langue du tout: L'histoire du macédonien dans l'enseignement primaire dans les Etats Balkaniques Dans les pays avec des populations diverses, la disposition d'enseignement primaire de langue maternelle dans les langues minoritaires a souvent été le sujet de débats politiques. L'auteur éclaircit l'
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