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"Professor Colin Williams is one of the world's leading scholars on lesser-used languages. In this book he brings to bear not only a vast store of empirical knowledge of the subject but a passionate plea and moral vision in defence of these languages. The book examines language policies in Finland, Ireland and Wales but places these policies in a much wider perspective including approaches by European institutions such as the Council of Europe and the Canadian experience. The author examines the issues from legislative, policy and legal perspectives all the time teasing out the consequences of the shift to neo-liberalism which has dominated western countries since the 1980s. Williams not only gives a fine analysis of these trends but also provides a realistic set of policy recommendations that will help these often embattled lesser-used languages to survive." - John Loughlin, University of Cambridge, UK
"This volume is a comprehensive and stimulating analysis of the challenges arising in relation to the design and implementation of minority language promotion regimes in the early twenty-first century. The book is impressively wide-ranging in its scope, examining closely initiatives in a number of different jurisdictions, and helpfully practical in its approach, so that the analysis is always drawn towards a operative conclusion in terms of best practice." - Wilson McLeod, University of Edinburgh, UK
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Book Title: Minority Language Promotion, Protection and Regulation
Book Subtitle: The Mask of Piety
Authors: Colin H. Williams
Series Title: Language and Globalization
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137000842
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-00083-5Published: 30 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43344-5Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-00084-2Published: 30 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2947-7506
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7514
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 343
Topics: Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics