Full Description
The book offers demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational perspectives on the status of both regional and immigrant languages in Europe and in a wider international context. From a cross-national point of view, empirical evidence on the status of these other languages of multicultural Europe is brought together in a combined frame of reference.
Contents
Preface
Guus Extra and Durk Gorter: Comparative Perspectives on Regional and Immigrant Minority Languages in Multicultural Europe
Part 1: Regional Languages in Europe
Jasone Cenoz: Basque in Spain and France
Colin Williams: Welsh in Great Britain
Boyd Robertson: Gaelic in Scotland
Durk Gorter, Alex Riemersma and Jehannes Ytsma: Frisian in the Netherlands
Brigitta Busch: Slovenian in Carinthia
Leena Huss: The National Minority Languages in Sweden
Anna Østern: Swedish in Finland
Part 2: Immigrant Languages in Europe
Sally Boyd: Immigrant Languages in Sweden
Ingrid Gogolin and Hans Reich: Immigrant Languages in Federal Germany
Tim van der Avoird, Peter Broeder and Guus Extra: Immigrant Minority Languages in the Netherlands
Vivian Edwards: Community Languages in the United Kingdom
Dominique Caubet: Maghrebine Arabic in France
Bernabé López García and Laura Mijares Molina: Moroccan Children and Arabic in Spanish Schools
Peter Bakker: Romani in Europe
Part 3: Outlook from Abroad
John Edwards: Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Canada
Reynaldo F. Macías: Minority Languages in the United States, with a Focus on Spanish in California
Neville Alexander: Majority and Minority Languages in South Africa
Uldis Ozolins and Michael Clyne: Immigration and Language Policy in Australia
Amitav Choudhry: Linguistic Minorities in India
Kutlay Yagmur: Languages in Turkey
Jilali Saíb: Berber and Arabic in Morocco
Appendices
