LINGUIST List 34.578
Wed Feb 15 2023
Books: Language Policy and the New Speaker Challenge: Williams
Editor for this issue: Maria Lucero Guillen Puon <luceroguillenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 13-Feb-2023
From: Ellena Moriarty <ellena.moriarty
cambridge.org>
Subject: Language Policy and the New Speaker Challenge: Williams
E-mail this message to a friend Title: Language Policy and the New Speaker Challenge
Subtitle: Hiding in Plain Sight
Published: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/language-policy-and-new-speaker-challenge-hiding-plain-sight?format=HB Author: Colin H. Williams
Hardback: ISBN: 9781316517758 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9781316517758 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9781316517758 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 122.55
Abstract:
'New speakers' is a term used to describe those who have learnt a minority language not within their home or community settings, but through bilingual education, immersion or migration. Looking specifically at the impact of new speakers on language policy, this book provides an authoritative and detailed examination of minority language policy in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre, Catalonia and Galicia. Based on interviews with politicians, senior civil servants, academics and civil society activists, it assesses the extent to which interventions derived from a new speakers' perspective has been incorporated into official language practice. It describes several challenges faced by new speakers, before proposing specific recommendations on how to integrate them into established minority language communities. Shedding new light on the deeper issues faced by minority language communities, it is essential reading for students and researchers in sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, language education, bi- and multilingualism.
1. The emergence of the new speaker phenomenon; 2. Popinjays, pragmatism and policy: a new speaker triptych; 3. Wales: normalised expectations; 4. Scotland: cautious consideration; 5. Ireland: tempered acceptance; 6. The Basque autonomous community and Navarre: enthusiastic endorsement; 7. Catalonia and Galicia: unalloyed support?; 8. The policy community and recommendations on new speakers; 9. Conclusion: contemporary challenges; Appendices.
Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
Sociolinguistics
Written In: English (eng)
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