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Galician and Irish in the European Context
Bernadette O'Rourke
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Description for Galician and Irish in the European Context
Paperback. Anexploration of the role of language attitudes and ideologies in predicting the survival prospects of a minority language.The authorexamines 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." Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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.
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
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
Number of Pages
185
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349365111
SKU
V9781349365111
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99-15
About Bernadette O'Rourke
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.
Reviews for Galician and Irish in the European Context
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 ... Read more