Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts offers insights into the complexities of language planning and policy, and highlights Australian and European - and EU - approaches to the management of multilingualism. These approaches include dealing with indigenous and migrant ethnolinguistic minorities, critical examination of educational policies for the provision of community languages in mainstream schooling, educational initiatives for the linguistic integration of minority language speakers and community efforts to maintain and/or revitalise minority languages. The chapters offer insights into country-specific policies in Australia, Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Spain and Sweden, and engage in comparative discussions, either between countries within Europe or between Australia and Europe.
'Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts...offers a thorough and accessible overview of language policy and planning isssues in Australia and Europe. Its nine entries are engaging and well-written. Equally important, consistent placement of a common set of concerns against larger sociological, cultural and political context bring this volume...together into a coherent whole.' - Christof Demont-Henrich, Journal of Sociolinguistics
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Managing and Maintaining Minority Languages in the Era of Globalization: Challenges for Europe and Australia; A.Pauwels
PART I: DEMOGRAPHY AND MEANING
Community Languages and the 2001 Australian Census; S.Kipp
Comparative Perspectives on Immigrant Minority Languages in Multicultural Europe; G.Extra
PART II: POLICY AND PLANNING
Maintaining Multilingualism in Europe: Propositions for a European Language Policy; P.H.Nelde
Contrasting and Comparing Minority Language Policy: 'Europe' and Australia; J.Lo Bianco
PART III: POLICY AND PRACTICE IN SPECIFIC SETTINGS
Maintaining a Language Other than English Through Higher Education in Australia; A.Pauwels
Inconsistencies and Discrepancies in Official Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: The Case of Norway; T.Bull
Communication and Community: Perspectives on Language Policy in Sweden and Australia Since the mid 1970s; S.Boyd
Language Maintenance and the Second Generation: Policies and Practices; J.Winter & A.Pauwels
Index
ANNE PAUWELS is Professor of Linguistics and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia, Australia. She is Chair of the Steering Committee for an Australian national research project Innovative Approaches to Provision of Languages Other Than English in Australian Higher Education. She is the author of Boys and Foreign Language Learning, Women Changing Language, Cross Cultural Communication in the Health Sciences and co-author of Immigration and Australia's Language Resources.
JOANNE WINTER is Senior Research Fellow, Dean's Office, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia, Australia. Her research focuses on the interaction of discourse, identities and gender.
JOSEPH LO BIANCO is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Australia's first language policy The National Policy on Languages [NPL] (1987). He publishes in multiculturalism, literacy education, language maintenance, planning and policy.
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Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts offers insights into the complexities of language planning and policy, and highlights Australian and European - and EU - approaches to the management of multilingualism. These approaches include dealing with indigenous and migrant ethnolinguistic minorities, critical examination of educational policies for the provision of community languages in mainstream schooling, educational initiatives for the linguistic integration of minority language speakers and community efforts to maintain and/or revitalise minority languages. The chapters offer insights into country-specific policies in Australia, Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Spain and Sweden, and engage in comparative discussions, either between countries within Europe or between Australia and Europe.
Reviews
'Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts...offers a thorough and accessible overview of language policy and planning isssues in Australia and Europe. Its nine entries are engaging and well-written. Equally important, consistent placement of a common set of concerns against larger sociological, cultural and political context bring this volume...together into a coherent whole.' - Christof Demont-Henrich, Journal of Sociolinguistics
Contents
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Managing and Maintaining Minority Languages in the Era of Globalization: Challenges for Europe and Australia; A.Pauwels
PART I: DEMOGRAPHY AND MEANING
Community Languages and the 2001 Australian Census; S.Kipp
Comparative Perspectives on Immigrant Minority Languages in Multicultural Europe; G.Extra
PART II: POLICY AND PLANNING
Maintaining Multilingualism in Europe: Propositions for a European Language Policy; P.H.Nelde
Contrasting and Comparing Minority Language Policy: 'Europe' and Australia; J.Lo Bianco
PART III: POLICY AND PRACTICE IN SPECIFIC SETTINGS
Maintaining a Language Other than English Through Higher Education in Australia; A.Pauwels
Inconsistencies and Discrepancies in Official Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: The Case of Norway; T.Bull
Communication and Community: Perspectives on Language Policy in Sweden and Australia Since the mid 1970s; S.Boyd
Language Maintenance and the Second Generation: Policies and Practices; J.Winter & A.Pauwels
Index
Authors
ANNE PAUWELS is Professor of Linguistics and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia, Australia. She is Chair of the Steering Committee for an Australian national research project Innovative Approaches to Provision of Languages Other Than English in Australian Higher Education. She is the author of Boys and Foreign Language Learning, Women Changing Language, Cross Cultural Communication in the Health Sciences and co-author of Immigration and Australia's Language Resources.
JOANNE WINTER is Senior Research Fellow, Dean's Office, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia, Australia. Her research focuses on the interaction of discourse, identities and gender.
JOSEPH LO BIANCO is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Australia's first language policy The National Policy on Languages [NPL] (1987). He publishes in multiculturalism, literacy education, language maintenance, planning and policy.
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