Full Description
This second volume of papers from the Fourth International Conference on Minority Languages emphasises the inventorial or descriptive approach, whereas the more theoretically oriented papers were published in Volume I.
Contents
What is reversing language shift (RSL) and how can it succeed, Joshua A. Fishman; minority language group status, Howard Giles et al; on coming to our census - a layman's guide to demolinguistics, John de Vries; legitimating or delegitimating new forms of racism - the role of the researchers, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas; grammatical borrowing and language changer - the Dutchification of Frisian, Germen de Hann; comparative analysis of language minorities - a sociopolitical framework, A.B.Anderson; notes for a minority-language typology - procedures and justification, John Edwards; the economic approach to minority languages, Francois Grin; summing up, Anders Ahlqvist.
