Democratic policies for language revitalisation
Subtitle: the case of Catalan
By: edited by Miquel Strubell, Emili Boix-Fuster
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780230285125
Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics; Language planning; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; Sociolinguistics; Catalan language; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative; Language policy
Description: "A collection of studies offering an up-to-date analysis of official policies to promote Catalan in a democratic framework in each of the main Spanish regions where it is spoken: Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and  index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; E.Boix & M.Strubell; title: La Catalanofonia: A Community in Search of Linguistic Normality; M.A.Pradilla-Cardona; title: The Legal Systems of the Catalan Language; J.Vernet & E.Pons; title: Policies Governing the Use of Languages in Relations Between the Authorities and the Public; I.Mari;; title: Language in Education Policies; F.X.Vila i Moreno; title: Policies Promoting the Use of Catalan in Oral Communications and to Improve Attitudes Towards the Language; E.Boix, J.Melià & B.Montoya; title: Language Policies in the Public Media and the Promotion of Catalan in the Private Media, Arts and Information Technologies; J.Gifreu; title: Language Policy in the World of Business and Consumer Affairs: From Non-Existence to Ineffectiveness; J.Melià; title: An Overview of Catalan Research into Language Policy and Planning; E.Heiderpriem-Olazábal; title: Index.