Full Description
The theme of this Conference was 'Comparative Research on Minority Languages and the Development of Theories'. The three previous conferences focused mainly on problems of definition, on language in society and on the linguistics of minority languages. In this volume, the editors have tried to go forward by concentrating on the one hand, on comparative research regarding minority languages, and on the other hand, on the development of theories in this field. We have welcomed a confrontation of different emerging theoretical perspectives. Western and Eastern Papers are published in the companion Volume II.
Contents
The reformation and the vernacular, Anthonia Feitsma; characterizing a minority language - a social psychological comparison between Dutch, Frisian and the Ljouwert vernacular, Reitze J.Jonkman; Swedish Finnish - development or deterioration?, J.Lainio; Flemish primary schools in Brussels, K.Deprez and A.Wijnants; language conservancy or can the anciently established British minority languages survive? Wilf Gunther; language maintenance and viability in the contemporary Scottish Gaelic speech-community, Ken MacKinnon; a study of the inward and outward migration of primary school children in the Nantile Valley, North-Wales and the resulting linguistic implications of this movement within the schools, T.Prys Jones; minority languages in Spain, R.Comet and I. Codina; a demolinguistic analysis of the Basque autonomous community derived from the census of 1986, X.Aizpurua and M.Karmen Garmendia; "our dialect sounds stupid" - the importance of attitudes to so-called sub-standard language codes as a factor in the (non)-retention of Slovene in Carinthia, Austria, Tom Priestly; national minority languages in media and education in Poland, A.F. en Wicherkiewicz Majewica; the Siberian Estonians and language policy, Juri Viikberg; lexical borrowing from Hebrew in Israeli spoken Arabic, Immanuel Koplewitz.
