The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
Subtitle: legal challenges and opportunities
By: [contributors, Dónall Ó. Riagáin [and others]]
Contributors: Council of Europe; University of Wales Swansea
Series: Regional or minority languages -- no. 5; Regional or minority languages -- no. 5.
Publisher: Council of Europe Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Strasbourg [France]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9789287163332
Subjects: Congresses; Language policy; Language and languages; Law and legislation; Linguistic minorities; Government policy; Minderheitensprache; Minderheidstalen; Dialecten; Juridische aspecten; Minoritetsspråk; Juridik och lagstiftning; Språk; European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages; European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (1992); Europa
Description: This publication considers the Charter for Regional or Minority Languages from a legal perspective. It illustrates the charter ratification process in individual states, presents implementation case studies for some states parties, assesses the influence of this instrument on domestic law and the legal implications of non-compliance. Some papers also explore more general issues surrounding the charter, weighing the advantages and disadvantages of a broad interpretation of the undertakings of states parties and looking at the challenge of adapting this instrument to a changing society.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "A selection of papers based on presentations given at the international conference entitled 'The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages: Legal Challenges and Opportunities', co-organised by the Council of Europe and the University of Wales Swansea, which was held in Swansea, Wales (United Kingdom) on 20 and 21 November 2006"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Language protection and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages : quo vadis?  -- Fernand de Varennes; title: Definitively interpreting the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages : the legal challenges  -- Robert Dunbar; title: The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and the principles of non-discrimination  -- Jean-Marie Woehrling; title: The implementation of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Spain  -- Xabier Arzoz; title: The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages : a judicial instrument or a political instrument : the case of Navarre  -- Iulen Urbiola Loiarte; title: The Catalan language and monitoring the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Spain  -- Santiago-José Castellà Surribas and Miquel Strubell; title: Challenges of applying the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages to a federal country : the Belgian example  -- Jean-Luc Fauconnier; title: Ukraine's long and winding road to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages  -- Bill Bowring and Myroslava Antonovych; title: The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and France : stocktaking and prospects for a ratification in abeyance : discourse analysis and the configuration of the "doxa"  -- Glovanni Agrestri; title: An opportunity avoided? : the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and UK language policy  -- Wilson McLeod; title: The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and the current legislative and policy contexts in the north of Ireland  -- Janet Muller; title: Chartering new territories in Welsh language judicial proceedings  -- Catrin Fflur Huws; title: Higher education and Article 8.1e of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages : a Welsh "opportunity avoided"? -- Gwynedd Parry.