The Other Languages of Europe: Demographic, Sociolinguistic and Educational Perspectives (Multilingual Matters) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1853595101 ISBN 13: 9781853595103

Verlag: Multilingual Matters, 2001

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Reseña del editor

The book offers demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational perspectives on the status of both regional and immigrant languages in Europe and in a wider international context. From a cross-national point of view, empirical evidence on the status of these other languages of multicultural Europe is brought together in a combined frame of reference.

Biografía del autor

Guus Extra is director of Babylon, Center for Studies of Multilingualism in the Multicultural Society at Tilburg University (the Netherlands) and professor of language and minorities at the same university. Durk Gorter is head of the Social Sciences research group at the Fryske Akademy/Universiteit van Amsterdam and part-time professor of Frisian sociolinguistics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He has published on the sociolinguistics of Frisian, minority languages in Europe, trilingual education and language policy.The articles are written by experts on sociolinguistics and applied linguistics who are all involved in the study of multilingualism in its social context.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Multilingual Matters
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1853595101
• ISBN 13: 9781853595103
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464
• Herausgeber: Extra Guus, Gorter Durk