Hogan-Brun Gabrielle, Wolff Stefan (ed.) Minority Languages in Europe: Frameworks, Status, Prospects

Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — xiv, 238 p. — ISBN 1–4039–0396–4.Minority languages are part of Europe's shared cultural heritage and there is a broad consensus that it is important to protect and encourage linguistic and cultural diversity during the process of continuing European integration. But what legislative and policy instruments can be effective? Are there conflicts between language rights and the social policy demands of nation building? How are general European concerns reflected or challenged within individual countries? This volume illustrates the intellectually productive debate among sociolinguists, linguistic anthropologists, political scientists, lawyers, language activists and policy makers. The contributions focus on the current status of minority languages within a 'Europe of the regions', the future prospects for minority languages in the continuing process of European integration, and the effectiveness or otherwise of current national and European frameworks in ensuring future linguistic and cultural diversity.Minority Languages in Europe: An Introduction to the Current Debate
When a Language is ‘Just Symbolic’: Reconsidering the Significance of Language to the Politics of Identity
Legal and Policy Frameworks
Devising an Adequate System of Minority Protection in the Area of Language Rights
Facilitating or Generating Linguistic Diversity: The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
The Practitioner’s Perspective: Minority Languages and Linguistic Minorities in the Work of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
Case Studies
Ethnic Germans as a Language Minority in Central and Eastern Europe: Legislative and Policy Frameworks in Poland, Hungary and Romania
Baltic National Minorities in a Transitional Setting
Politics and Language Rights: A Case Study of Language Politics in Croatia
‘Minor’ Needs or The Ambiguous Power of Translation
On Policies and Prospects for British Sign Language
The Changing Status of Romani in EuropeLanguage, Nationalism and Democracy in Europe