Survival and Development of Language Communities ：Prospects and Challenges ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Prospects and Challenges

Publication series ：1

Author： Vila   F. Xavier  

Publisher： Channel View Publications‎

Publication year： 2012

E-ISBN: 9781847698360

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781847698346

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781847698346

Subject： H002 language planning

Keyword： 语言学

Language： ENG

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Description

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.

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Contents

Tables and Figures

Contributors

1 The Analysis of Medium-Sized Language Communities

2 The Main Challenges Facing Czech as a Medium-Sized Language: The State of Affairs at the Beginning of the 21st Century

3 Challenges Facing Danish as a Medium-Sized Language

4 Slovene, Between Purism and Plurilingualism

5 Challenges Faced by a Medium-Sized Language Community in the 21st Century: The Case of Hebrew

6 Challenges for the Estonian Language: A Poststructuralist Perspective

7 A Small National Language and its Multilingual Challenges: The Caseof Latvian

8 Is Catalan a Medium-Sized Language Community Too?

9 Challenges and Opportunities for Medium-Sized Language Communities in the 21st Century: A (Preliminary)Synthesis

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