Minority Language Policy and the EC Institutions: The Emerging Ethos

2002 ◽  
pp. 263-290
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Minority Language Policy

scholarly journals Critical Mass and Insecurity in Minority Language Policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-316
Author(s):  
C.F. Huws
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Welsh Language ◽  
Minority Language Policy

This article will discuss the extent to which legislation is effective in terms of changing individual and group behaviours. The specific focus of this article will be to argue that legislation pertaining to the use of the Welsh language in Wales, despite having expanded the domains of language use in an important way, has not shifted the cycle of language non-use that may be identified.

Moving beyond Asocial Minority-Language Policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-211
Author(s):  
Conchúr Ó Giollagáin ◽  
Iain Caimbeul
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
A Value ◽  
Language Minorities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Minority Language Policy ◽  
Language Condition ◽  
Functionalist Approach

This paper exams how asocial symbolic minority-language policy contributes to the social processes of language shift from the perspective of highly threatened languages, such as Scottish Gaelic. In introducing the concept of language shift through Asocial Minority-Language Policy, we argue that symbolic minority-language policy is detrimental to threatened language minorities in that it is ideologically implicated in language shift when it neglects the societal circumstances of minority-language decline. The prioritisation of the symbolic aspect of language policy also hinders a value-for-money approach to official provision for the minority group. This paper calls for a materialist/functionalist approach to minority-language societal regeneration to counter the social irrelevance of symbolic policy. We suggest policy options for moving beyond the symbolic focus on the minority-language condition.

scholarly journals Minority Language Policy and Practice in China: The Need for Multicultural Education

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxiang Wang ◽  
JoAnn Phillion
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
Minority Language Policy ◽  
Language Environment ◽  
Education In China ◽  
Culture And Language

In this article, we examine minority language policy and practice in China and discuss the large gaps between what is stipulated by law and what occurs in practice. Based on a literature review and findings from our study, we contend that adopting multicultural education in China would help law makers and local officials value and respect minority languages and culture and help teachers design culturally relevant curricula. The overall purpose for multicultural education in China would be to create a culture and language environment for minority students to improve academic achievement and to address social injustice.

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