Europe and the Politics of Language

Europe and the Politics of Language PDF

Author: Máiréad Nic Craith

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-12-14

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0230501893

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Do political boundaries impact on concepts of language? How significant is language for citizenship in contemporary Europe? Can disputed languages acquire full status? Should non-European languages receive recognition from the EU? These are among the many questions explored in this new study of official, regional and disputed languages in an ever-changing European context. Broad policy issues and the performance of the range of instruments of policy at local, national and European levels are illustrated with reference to case studies across Europe.

The Black Book

The Black Book PDF

Author: Wesley J. Reisser

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 0739171119

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This book is the first ever in-depth look at the geographic peace plans used by the United States at the end of World War I. It analyzes the negotiation and implementation of these plans and analyzes the lasting impact of the territorial settlements on the ensuing history of Europe and the Middle East.

Perspectives on Black English

Perspectives on Black English PDF

Author: Joey L. Dillard

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2010-12-15

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 3110905329

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

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