The State, the Activists and the Islanders Language Policy on Corsica /

This analysis of language policy on Corsica provides the first study of the three levels of language policy existing on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. It focuses on the key participants - the State, the language activists and the islanders - in the language debate that has taken place across t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Blackwood, Robert J. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:Language Policy, 8
Subjects:
Applied linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Language and languages-Study and teaching.
Romance languages.
Anthropological linguistics.
Applied Linguistics.
Language Education.
Romance Languages.
Linguistic Anthropology.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • From the contents Chapter One. Corsica, the poor relation
  • Chapter Two. Corsica, a Genoese island
  • Chapter Three. The Third Republic and a new century
  • Chapter Four. The loi Deixonne - language management against the grain
  • Chapter Five. The final decades of the twentieth century
  • Chapter Six. Language beliefs influencing language management
  • Chapter Seven. The islanders - a longitudinal study
  • Chapter Eight. The conclusions - two languages, two policies? Appendix A. Bibliography.

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