Minority Language Media - Concepts, Critiques and Case Studies

Presents a collection of essays on general topics on minority language media, as well as studies of specific examples. This work attempts to define and develop minority language media as a distinct field of study.

About the author

Dr Mike Cormack is a Senior Lecturer at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the Gaelic college on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, part of UHI Millennium Institute, where he is Course Director for the BA in Gaelic and Media Studies. Since the early 1990s he has been publishing articles on minority language media in general, and more specifically on Scottish Gaelic and the media. Dr Niamh Hourigan is a College Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at University College Cork. She is the author of Escaping the Global Village: Media, Language and Protest examining campaigns for television in minority languages, and is co-editor of Social Movements and Ireland.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Mike Cormack, Mike Cormack
• Assisted by: Dr Mike Cormack (Editor), Mike Cormack (Editor), Dr Niamh Hourigan (Editor), Niamh Hourigan (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.04.2007
• EAN: 9781853599637
• ISBN: 978-1-85359-963-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Multilingual Matters; Multilingual Matters
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries