TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bitenc,Maja
AU  - Boix-Fuster,Emili
AU  - Bretxa,Vanessa
AU  - Farràs,Jaume Farràs i
AU  - Jørgensen,J.Normann
AU  - Nekvapil,Jiří
AU  - Ozolins,Uldis
AU  - Skerrett,Delaney Michael
AU  - Stavans,Anat
AU  - Vila Moreno,F.Xavier
AU  - Vila,F.Xavier
TI  - Survival and Development of Language Communities: Prospects and Challenges 
T2  - Multilingual Matters
SN  - 9781847698353
AV  - P119.32.E85 S87 2013
U1  - 306.44/94 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit : 
PB  - Multilingual Matters, 
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Variation
KW  - Europe
KW  - Language planning
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Europe, Central
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - Language policy
KW  - History
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; 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 Case of 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 --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Too small to be big, but also too big to be really small, medium-sized language communities (MSLCs) face their own challenges in a rapidly globalising world where multilingualism and mobility seem to be eroding the old securities that the monolingual nation states provided. The questions to be answered are numerous: What are the main areas in which the position of these languages is actually threatened? How do these societies manage their diversity (both old and new)? Has state machinery really become as irrelevant in terms of language policy as their portrayals often suggest? This book explores the responses to these and other challenges by seven relatively successful MSLCs, so that their lessons can be applied more generally to other languages striving for long term survival
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847698360
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781847698360
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781847698360/original
ER  -