The Other Languages of Europe Demographic, Sociolinguistic and Educational Perspectives

by Extra, Guus; Gorter, Durk

• ISBN13: 9781853595097
• ISBN10: 1853595098
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-31
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Guus Extra is director of Babylon, Center for Studies of Multilingualism in the Multicultural Society at Tilburg University (the Netherlands) and professor of language and minorities at the same university.Durk Gorter is head of the Social Sciences research group at the Fryske Akademy/Universiteit van Amsterdam and part-time professor of Frisian sociolinguistics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He has published on the sociolinguistics of Frisian, minority languages in Europe, trilingual education and language policy.The articles are written by experts on sociolinguistics and applied linguistics who are all involved in the study of multilingualism in its social context.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Comparative perspectives on regional and immigrant minority languages in multicultural Europe	1	(44)
Guus Extra
Durk Gorter
Part I Regional languages in Europe
Basque in Spain and France	45	(14)
Jasone Cenoz
Welsh in Great Britain	59	(24)
Colin Williams
Gaelic in Scotland	83	(20)
Boyd Robertson
Frisian in the Netherlands	103	(16)
Durk Gorter
Alex Riemersma
Jehannes Ytsma
Solvenian in Carinthia	119	(18)
Brigitta Busch
The national minority languages in Sweden	137	(22)
Leena Huss
Swedish in Finland	159	(18)
Anna Ostern
Part II Immigrant languages in Europe
Immigrant languages in Sweden	177	(16)
Sally Boyd
Immigrant languages in federal Germany	193	(22)
Ingrid Gogolin
Hans Reich
Immigrant minority languages in the Netherlands	215	(28)
Tim Van Der Avoird
Peter Broeder
Guus Extra
Community languages in the United Kingdom	243	(18)
Vivian Edwards
Maghrebine Arabic in France	261	(18)
Dominique Caubet
Moroccan children and Arabic in Spanish schools	279	(14)
Bernabe Lopez Garcia
Laura Mijares Molina
Romani in Europe	293	(22)
Peter Bakker
Part III Outlook from abroad
Multilingualism and multiculturalism in Canada	315	(18)
John Edwards
Minority languages in the United States, with a focus on Spanish in California	333	(22)
Reynaldo F. Macias
Majority and minority languages in South Africa	355	(16)
Neville Alexander
Immigration and language policy in Australia	371	(20)
Uldis Ozolins
Michael Clyne
Lingustic minorities in India	391	(16)
Amitav Choudhry
Languages in Turkey	407	(22)
Kutlay Yagmur
Berber and Arabic in Morocco	429
Jilali Saib
Appendices
Declaration of Oegstgeest	447
List of contributors and affiliatons	451