Galician and Irish in the European Context: Attitudes Towards Weak and Strong Minority Languages

by B. O'Rourke

Overview

An exploration of the role of language attitudes and ideologies in predicting the survival prospects of a minority language. The author examines this role through a cross-national comparative analysis of Irish in the Republic of Ireland and Galician in the Autonomous Community of Galicia in north-west Spain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349365111
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2011
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
Edition description:	1st ed. 2011
Pages:	185
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

BERNADETTE O'ROURKE lecturers in Spanish and General Linguistics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. Her main research interests, on which she has published various articles and chapters, are in sociolinguistics and the sociology of language, with a particular focus on minority language issues.

Table of Contents

List of Tables Introduction Language Attitudes Evolution of Attitudes towards Irish and Galician A New Policy for Ideological Change Effects of Language Policies on Attitudes A Cross National Study of Young People's Attitudes Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

This comparative analysis of the Irish and Galican languages is framed by the persepctive that the impact on language maintenance and shift of macro-ocial factors such as political and institutional support can only be assessed adequately through 'the interpreative filter of linguistic eliefs,/attitudes and ideologies' (p. 3/4). The rationale for this and other compartive studies is that they offer 'a broader and more objective framework than can be achieved through single case studies' (p. 4) avoding the solipsism that can be found in the limited horizons of one langauge studies and benefitting from the novel insights that O'Rourke offers.' Dick Vigers, University of Southampton, Current Issues in Language PLanning, Sept. 2012

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