Linguistic Minorities, Society, and TerritoryColin H. Williams Multilingual Matters, 1991 - 330 էջ Companion volume to Language in Geographic Context, this book reflects the growing interest of geographers in language. It presents recent findings in geolinguistics, discussing the opportunities and conflicts faced by linguistic minorities in their attempts to influence the structure of the modern state in Europe and North America. It explores the relationship between territorial identity, social change and economic development in multilingual societies. |
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Geographical Aspects of Minority Language Situations in Italy | 44 |
Dilemmas in Irish Language Planning | 66 |
The Geolinguistics of Breton | 96 |
LanguageRetreat and Regeneration in the PresentDay Scottish | 121 |
Gaelic Speaking | 150 |
What Future for Scotlands Gaelicspeaking Communities? | 173 |
Bicultural Conflict in the Context of the CorePeriphery Model | 219 |
The Spatial Organisation of Language in Canada 1981 | 247 |
Gaelic in Nova Scotia | 269 |
Representation in Geolinguistics | 298 |
Sound Language Planning is Holistic in Nature | 315 |
International Seminar on Geolinguistics | 323 |
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