Minority Languages and Cultural Diversity in Europe - Gaelic and Sorbian Perspectives

Informationen zum Autor Konstanze Glaser is an Associate Lecturer for the Open University and also works as a freelance translator. Her research interests range from contact linguistics, intercultural communication and the (re)production of ethnolinguistic identities to multiculturalism, identity politics and new social movements more generally. Klappentext This book engages critically with debates about linguistic continuity and cultural survival in relation to Europe's authochthonous minorities. Focusing on Scotland's Gaels and Lusatia's Sorbs/Wends, it analyses and evaluates competing assumptions, rationales and ideologies which have shaped previous and present language revitalisation initiatives.

About the author

Konstanze Glaser is an Associate Lecturer for the Open University and also works as a freelance translator. Her research interests range from contact linguistics, intercultural communication and the (re)production of ethnolinguistic identities to multiculturalism, identity politics and new social movements more generally.

Product details

• Authors: Konstanze Glaser
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.08.2007
• EAN: 9781853599323
• ISBN: 978-1-85359-932-3
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Linguistic Diversity and Langu; Multilingual Matters; Linguistic Diversity and Langu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories