B. O'Rourke

Gebundenes Buch

Galician and Irish in the European Context

Attitudes Towards Weak and Strong Minority Languages

Beschreibung

An exploration of the role of language attitudes and ideologies in predicting the survival prospects of a minority language. The author examines this role through a cross-national comparative analysis of Irish in the Republic of Ireland and Galician in the Autonomous Community of Galicia in north-west Spain.

Autor

BERNADETTE O'ROURKE lecturers in Spanish and General Linguistics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. Her main research interests, on which she has published various articles and chapters, are in sociolinguistics and the sociology of language, with a particular focus on minority language issues.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-57403-8
• 2011 edition
• Seitenzahl: 185
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780230574038
• ISBN-10: 0230574033
• Artikelnr.: 31570581

Rezensionen

This comparative analysis of the Irish and Galican languages is framed by the persepctive that the impact on language maintenance and shift of macro-ocial factors such as political and institutional support can only be assessed adequately through 'the interpreative filter of linguistic eliefs,/attitudes and ideologies' (p. 3/4). The rationale for this and other compartive studies is that they offer 'a broader and more objective framework than can be achieved through single case studies' (p. 4) avoding the solipsism that can be found in the limited horizons of one langauge studies and benefitting from the novel insights that O'Rourke offers.' Dick Vigers, University of Southampton, Current Issues in Language PLanning, Sept. 2012