B. O'Rourke

Galician and Irish in the European Context

Attitudes Towards Weak and Strong Minority Languages. 2011 edition. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 185 Seiten
ISBN 1349365114
EAN 9781349365111
Veröffentlicht Januar 2011
Verlag/Hersteller Palgrave MacMillan

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Beschreibung

An exploration of the role of language attitudes and ideologies in predicting the survival prospects of a minority language. The author examines this role through a cross-national comparative analysis of Irish in the Republic of Ireland and Galician in the Autonomous Community of Galicia in north-west Spain.

Portrait

BERNADETTE O'ROURKE lecturers in Spanish and General Linguistics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. Her main research interests, on which she has published various articles and chapters, are in sociolinguistics and the sociology of language, with a particular focus on minority language issues.