Discourse and Struggle in Minority Language Policy Formation

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2. Introduction

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3. Theoretical Frameworks and Methodological Implications: Regional and Minority Language Politics and Policy Making in the EU

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4. Foundations of the EU Sociolinguistic Regimes: Community Official and/or Working Languages

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5. The EU’s RML Policy Network: Legal Governing and Governance Politics

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6. Language, Nation and State in French Linguistic Nationalism: History, Developments and Perspectives

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7. Unity and Diversity in Corsica: Patterns of Identity and Political Separatism

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8. From one Diglossic Situation to Another — Ideological and Sociolinguistic Change in Modernising Corsica (1769–1974)

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9. Language Institutionalisation in Contemporary Corsica (1974–2005)

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10. Language Ideologies, Language Planning and Language Attitudes in Contemporary Corsica

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11. General Conclusion

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12. Back Matter

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The author presents a new approach to the study of language policy, by focusing on language policy formation and implementation as a dynamic, conflict-laden process involving the interaction of various actors with different motivations and uneven bargaining powers, rather than as a product , examinable post hoc from existing language legislation.

• identity
• language policy
• minority language

• Coventry University, UK

  Jean-Bernard Adrey

Gabrielle Hogan-Brun is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research fields are migration and multilingualism, language ideologies, language policy, with particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe. Among her publications are the co-authored monograph Language Policies and Practices in the Baltic States, the co-edited books Discourses on Language and Integration: Critical Perspectives on Language Testing Regimes in Europe, and Minority Languages in Europe: Frameworks - Status – Prospects. She is Founding Editor of the book series Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities, and Co-Editor of the journal Current Issues in Language Planning.

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