Minority Languages in Europe; Frameworks, Status and Prospects

by Edited by Gabrielle Hogan-Brun and Stefan Wolff

• ISBN13: 9781403903976
• ISBN10: 1403903972
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2010-03-16
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Minority languages in Europe, as part of a common cultural heritage, need protection. The contributions to this book reflect urgent, stimulating and productive debates among researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, politics and sociology, and among language activists and policy makers.

Author Biography

GABRIELLE HOGAN-BRUN FIL is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research fields are language and migration, language ideologies, language policy, with particular focus on Central/Eastern Europe. Among her main recent publications are Language Policies and Practices in the Baltic States (with U. Ozolins, M. Ramoniene & M. Rannut, in polity series of "Current Issues in Language Planning," 2007), the guest-edited the special journal issues "Language and Social Processes in the Baltic States surrounding EU Accession" (in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005), and "Baltic Sociolinguistic Review" (in Journal of Baltic Studies, 2005). She is Editor of the journal Current Issues in Language Planning, and of the book series Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. She has also directed the British Academy funded Baltic Language and Integration Network (BLaIN; www.blain-online.org).

STEFAN WOLFF is Professor of Political Science at the University of Nottingham, UK, where he also directs the Centre for International Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution. He has written extensively on ethnic conflict and conflict resolution, and his publications include Disputed Territories: The Transnational Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict Settlement (2002), Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts (2002, with Ulrich Schneckener), The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe (2004, with Karl Cordell), Autonomy, Self-governance and Conflict Resolution (2005, with Marc Weller), and Ethnic Conflict: A Global Perspective (2006). He is co-chair of the Specialist Group on Ethnopolitics of the UK's Political Studies Association and the founding editor of the group's journal Ethnopolitics.