Discourses of Endangerment: Ideology and Interest in the Defence of Languages 1441111174, 9781441111173

Current academic discussions and public debates about language frequently focus on the importance of defending languages

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English Pages 302 [301] Year 2008

Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1. Discourses of endangerment: Sociolinguistics, globalization and social order
2. Defending diversity: Staking out a common global interest?
3. Indigenous language endangerment and the unfinished business of nation states
4. Discourses of endangerment: Contexts and consequences of essentializing discourses
5. Who wants to save ‘le patois d’Évolène’?
6. Français, acadien, acadjonne: Competing discourses on language preservation along the shores of the Baie Sainte-Marie
7. the future of Catalan: Language endangerment and nationalist discourses in Catalonia
8. Language endangerment, war and peace in Ireland and Northern Ireland
9. Voices of endangerment: A language ideological debate on the Swedish language
10. Defending English in an English-dominant world: The ideology of the ‘Official English’ movement in the United States
11. Protecting French: The view from France
12. Embracing diversity for the sake of unity: Linguistic hegemony and the pursuit of total Spanish
13. Language endangerment and verbal hygiene: History, morality and politics
Index

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