Minority Languages, National Languages, and Official Language Policies
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Minority Languages, National Languages, and Official Language Policies

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In a context where linguistic and cultural diversity is characterized by ever-increasing complexity, adopting official multilingual policies to correct a country's ethno-linguistic, socio-economic, and symbolic imbalances presents many obstacles, but the greatest challenge is implementing them effectively. To what degree and in what ways have official multilingualism and multiculturalism policies actually succeeded in attaining their goals?

Questioning and challenging foundational concepts, Minority Languages, National Languages, and Official Language Policies highlights the extent to which governments and international bodies are unable to manage complex linguistic and cultural diversity on an effective and sustained basis. This volume examines the principles, theory, intentions, and outcomes of official policies of multilingualism at the city, regional, and national levels through a series of international case studies. The eleven chapters - most focusing on lesser-known geopolitical contexts and languages - bring to the fore the many paradoxes that underlie the concept of diversity, lived experiences of and attitudes toward linguistic and cultural diversity, and the official multilingual policies designed to legally enhance, protect, or constrain otherness.

An authoritative source of new and updated information, offering fresh interpretations and analyses of evolving sociolinguistic and political phenomena in today's global world, Minority Languages, National Languages, and Official Language Policies demonstrates how language policies often fail to deal appropriately or adequately with the issues they are designed to solve.

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Yes, you can access Minority Languages, National Languages, and Official Language Policies by Gillian Lane-Mercier, Denise Merkle, Jane Koustas, Gillian Lane-Mercier,Denise Merkle,Jane Koustas in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Public Policy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Tables and Figures
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. INTRODUCTION Toward an Ethos of Diversity
  7. “Diversity Is Diverse”: Complex Diversity and Deep Diversity
  8. 1 Choosing Concepts for Sustainable Diversity Management Policies
  9. Problematizing the Ethos of Diversity: Majority National Languages and Official Language Policy
  10. 2 Multilingualism without Multiculturalism? The Case of Luxembourg
  11. 3 The Future of Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Central Asia:The Case of Kazakhstan
  12. Protecting and Revitalizing Endangered Traditional Minority Languages
  13. 4 Minority Language Protection in Italy and Local Initiatives to Protect Francoprovençal in Apulia
  14. 5 Dyw un iaith byth yn ddigon – One Language Is Never Enough: Language Policy and Translation in Modern Wales
  15. 6 International Models of Language Policy and Language Planning: Official Bilingualism in Ireland and Sociolinguistic Reality
  16. Indigenous Languages and Official Language Policy: The Canadian Example
  17. 7 Language, Education, and the Structuring of Canada’s Social Sphere
  18. 8 Indigenizing Language Policy in Canada: Redressing Racial Hierarchies in Language and Education
  19. Decolonization and Official Language Policy: The African Example
  20. 9 The Promotion of Languages in Nigeria: An Example of Problematic Official Multilingualism in Africa
  21. 10 Denying Linguistic and Cultural Pluralism in Algeria: An Official Model of Diversity Management
  22. Challenging the Limits of Official Language Policy
  23. 11 Challenging the Borders of Nation: Language and Translational Language Policy in the Plurilingual Romani Context
  24. AFTERWORD
  25. Contributors
  26. Index