Overview
- Advances a new agenda for academic and policy debates concerning language revitalisation
- Provides the first systematic analysis of the implications of social, economic and political change on regional and minority languages
- Brings together a group of prominent researchers to reassess and reconceptualise language revitalisation in a fast-changing world
Part of the book series: Language and Globalization (LAGL)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers in order to examine how and to what extent the challenge of language revitalisation should be reassessed and reconceptualised to take account of our fast-changing social context. The period of four decades between 1980 and 2020 that straddled the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first is widely regarded as one that witnessed a series of fundamental social, economic and political transformations. Many societies have become increasingly individualistic, mobile and diverse in terms of ethnicity and identity; their economies have become increasingly interconnected; and their governance structures have become increasingly complex, incorporating a growing number of different levels and actors. In addition, rapid advancements with regard to automated, digital and communication technology have had a far-reaching impact on how people interact with each other and participate in society. The chapters in this book aim to advance an agenda of key questions that should concern those working in the field of language revitalisation over the coming years, and the volume will be of interest to students, scholars and policy-makers in related areas including sociolinguistics, education, sociology, geography, political science, law, economics, Celtic studies, and communication technology.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Huw Lewis is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Aberystwyth University, UK.
Wilson McLeod is Professor of Gaelic at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation
Editors: Huw Lewis, Wilson McLeod
Series Title: Language and Globalization
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80189-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80188-5Published: 29 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80191-5Published: 30 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80189-2Published: 28 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2947-7506
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7514
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 391
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Minority Languages, Language Change, Globalization, Language Policy and Planning, Development and Social Change