Democratic policies for language revitalisation: the case of Catalan

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. MIQUEL STRUBELL worked for 19 years in the Catalan government's language promotion department, before moving to the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain. He is executive secretary of the Linguamón-UOC Chair in Multilingualism. He has coordinated seven projects funded by the EU. EMILI BOIX-FUSTER is full professor of Sociolinguistics, Department of Catalan Philology, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. He regularly teaches Sociolinguistics, Language Planning andApplied Linguistics. He is editor of the academic journal Treballs de Sociolingüística Catalana and a steering committee member of U. Barcelona's University Centre of Sociolinguistics and Communication (CUSC). INDICE: Acknowledgements - Introduction; 'E.Boix '&' M.Strubell - La Catalanofonia:' A Community in Search of Linguistic Normality; 'M.A.Pradilla-Cardona ' - The Legal Systems of the Catalan Language; 'J.Vernet '&' E.Pons' - Policies Governing the Use of Languages in Relations Between the Authorities and the Public; 'I.Marí - 'Language in Education Policies; 'F.X.Vila i Moreno - 'Policies Promoting the Use of Catalan in Oral Communications and to Improve Attitudes Towards the Language; 'E.Boix, J.Melià '&' B.Montoya' - Language Policiesin the Public Media and the Promotion of Catalan in the Private Media, Arts and Information Technologies; 'J.Gifreu - 'Language Policy in the World of Business and Consumer Affairs: From Non-Existence to Ineffectiveness; 'J.Melià' - An Overview of Catalan Research into Language Policy and Planning; 'E.Heiderpriem-Olazábal - 'Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-28512-5
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 27/05/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés