Survival and Development of Language Communities - Prospects and Challenges

This volume explores the main challenges facing 7 well-established medium-sized language communities with regard to their survival and development at the beginning of the 21st century. The book provides an in-depth analysis of each case, and reaches conclusions that are relevant to other cases and to language policy theory in general.

About the author

F. Xavier Vila is an associate professor in the Department of Catalan Philology and Director of the University Centre for Sociolinguistics and Communication at the Universitat de Barcelona. He has published widely in the areas of sociolinguistics, demolinguistics and language policy, including Survival and Development of Language Communities: Prospects and Challenges (Multilingual Matters, 2013).

Summary

This volume explores the main challenges facing 7 well-established medium-sized language communities with regard to their survival and development at the beginning of the 21st century. The book provides an in-depth analysis of each case, and reaches conclusions that are relevant to other cases and to language policy theory in general.

Product details

• Authors: F. Xavier Vila Moreno
• Assisted by: F. Xavier Vila (Editor), F Xavier Vila Moreno (Editor), F. Xavier Vila Moreno (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.11.2012
• EAN: 9781847698346
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-834-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 211 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 307 g
• Series: Multilingual Matters; Multilingual Matters
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries