Does Legislation Change Perception and Behaviour? Attitudes to and Perceptions of the Welsh Language in Legal Context

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Abstract

Many Europeans speak a first language that is not the standard language of the country they live in: languages with millions of speakers like Catalan and languages with few speakers like Gaelic; languages spoken across the border like German in Denmark and Italian in Slovenia; and immigrant languages like Turkish in Sweden. Many minority languages have experienced some revitalization, but now face new threats from an increasingly integrated Europe, from globalization and innovations in mass communication and from the challenges posed by spread of English. The chapters in this book, written by experts in several fields, discuss these issues both in general and in specialized chapters with vivid, up-to-date examples from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, from Ireland to Turkey.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRights, Promotion and Integration Issues for Minority Languages in Europe
EditorsS. Pertot, T. S. Priestly, C. Williams
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages60-73
Number of pages14
Publication statusPublished - 19 Dec 2008
EventInternational Conference on Regional and Minority Languages - Slovene Research Institute, Trieste, Italy
Duration: 01 Jun 200505 Jun 2005

Publication series

Name2008
Publisher0

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Regional and Minority Languages
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityTrieste
Period01 Jun 200505 Jun 2005

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