Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Managing and Maintaining Minority Languages in the Era of Globalization: Challenges for Europe and Australia

   1. Managing and Maintaining Minority Languages in the Era of Globalization: Challenges for Europe and Australia

      • Anne Pauwels

      Pages 1-9

3. Demography and Meaning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Community Languages and the 2001 Australian Census

      • Sandra Kipp

      Pages 13-29

   3. Comparative Perspectives on Immigrant Minority Languages in Multicultural Europe

      • Guus Extra

      Pages 30-56

4. Policy and Planning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. Maintaining Multilingualism in Europe: Propositions for a European Language Policy

      • Peter Hans Nelde

      Pages 59-77

   3. Contrasting and Comparing Minority Language Policy: Europe and Australia

      • Joseph Lo Bianco

      Pages 78-104

5. Policy and Practice in Specific Settings

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Maintaining a Language Other than English Through Higher Education in Australia

      • Anne Pauwels

      Pages 107-123

   3. Inconsistencies and Discrepancies in Official Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: The Case of Norway

      • Tove Bull

      Pages 124-140

   4. Communication and Community: Perspectives on Language Policy in Sweden and Australia since the Mid-1970s

      • Sally Boyd

      Pages 141-179

   5. Language Maintenance and the Second Generation: Policies and Practices

      • Joanne Winter, Anne Pauwels

      Pages 180-200

6. Back Matter

   Pages 201-209

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Deals with challenges to the maintenance of minority (or community) languages in this era of globalization and increasing transnational movements of people. The contributors, experts in language policy, language maintenance and multilingualism offer complementary perspectives from Australia and Europe on the maintenance of linguistic diversity.

• Australia
• communication
• comparative
• education
• English
• Europe
• knowledge
• language
• language policy
• migrant
• minority language
• multilingualism
• planning
• policy
• proposition

'Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts...offers a thorough and accessible overview of language policy and planning isssues in Australia and Europe. Its nine entries are engaging and well-written. Equally important, consistent placement of a common set of concerns against larger sociological, cultural and political context bring this volume...together into a coherent whole.' - Christof Demont-Henrich, Journal of Sociolinguistics

'Pauwels, Winter, and Lo Bianco have tackled a very large issue facing present circumstances in Europe, Australia, and many other countries. Much of what they describe and include in these chapters can be applied to other national extenuating circumstances.

They offer a powerful perspective on how minority languages must be supported and recognized.' - Esther Ra, Current Issues in Language Planning

• The University of Western Australia, Australia

  Anne Pauwels, Joanne Winter

• The University of Melbourne, Australia

  Joseph Bianco

SALLY BOYD Professor in Linguistics, University of Göteborg, Sweden TOVE BULL Professor of Nordic Languages, University of Tromsø, Norway GUUS EXTRA Chair of Language and Minorities, Tilburg University, Netherlands SANDRA KIPP Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Languages, University of Melbourne, Australia PETER H. NELDE Professor and Chair in General and German Linguistics, Brussels University (K.U.B.), Belgium and Head of the Research Centre on Multilingualism.

Policies and ethics