Heritage Languages in the Digital Age - The Case of Autochthonous Minority Languages in Western Europe

About the author

Birte Arendt is a Lecturer at the Institute for German Philology and Director of the Competence Centre for the Teaching of Low German at the University of Greifswald, Germany. Her research interests include regional language teaching, digital language pedagogy, language acquisition in peer interactions and language attitudes. She is currently leading the project Interuniversity Teaching Network: Low German Teaching.
Gertrud Reershemius is Professor of Linguistics and Language Contact at Aston University, UK. Her research focuses on pragmatics, language contact and multilingualism with a focus on speakers of smaller or lesser used languages such as Yiddish and Low German. She is particularly interested in mediatisation processes and the study of semiotic landscapes, and she has published widely on these topics.

Product details

• Assisted by: Arendt Birte (Editor), Reershemius Gertrud (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 13.01.2026
• EAN: 9781800414211
• ISBN: 978-1-80041-421-1
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Multilingual Matters
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Communication Studies, Ethical & social aspects of IT, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects