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Language, Policy and Territory: A Festschrift for Colin H. Williams

Editat de Wilson McLeod, Rob Dunbar, Kathryn Jones, John Walsh
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 iul 2022
This volume celebrates the contribution of Professor Colin Williams, an immensely important and influential scholar in the field of language policy for more than forty years. Eighteen chapters by former students, colleagues and collaborators address a range of topics involving different aspects of language legislation and language rights, governance, economics, territoriality, land use planning, and onomastics. Six chapters address policy issues in Professor Williams’s native Wales while others focus on Canada, Catalonia, Ireland and Scotland. The volume concludes with an Afterword by Professor Williams himself. The book will be suitable for postgraduates and researchers not only in the field of language policy and planning but also sociolinguistics, geography, law and political science.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030943455
ISBN-10: 3030943453
Ilustrații: XV, 433 p. 12 illus., 9 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2022
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Tables and figures
Contributors
1. Introduction (Wilson McLeod, Robert Dunbar, Kathryn Jones and John Walsh)Part I: Theorising language policy and regulation
2. Language policy as a form of public policy(Huw Lewis and Elin Royles)
3. Language rights, human rights and the right to chat- Emyr Lewis
4. Language and space: a new research agenda for urban geolinguistics- Bernadette O’Rourke 
5. Reflections on language as a vehicle of economic value- François Grin
Part II: Language policy challenges in Wales         
6. Language planning in Wales: Joining the dots- Meirion Prys Jones
7. Recent legal developments in Wales: moving beyond individual to group rights?- Robert Dunbar
8. Networked territories of language and nation- Rhys Jones 
9. Placemaking: towards rethinking land-use planning and language planning for a thriving Welsh language- Kathryn Jones                                            
10. Signs of the times: Onomastics and language policy in Wales- Eleri Hedd James
11. Canolfannau Cymraeg – a top-down or bottom-up approach to language planning?- Steve Morri
Part III: Language policy challenges in Canada
12. Best practices and language policy designs: lessons from Canada and Wales- Linda Cardinal and Anastasia Llewellyn
13. F.R. Scott and the origins of language policy in Canada- Graham Fraser
14. The uncertain future of French in Canada- Charles Castonguay                                             
15. The planned decline of the English school system in Quebec- Richard Y. Bourhis
Part IV: Language policy challenges in Ireland, Scotland and Catalonia
16. Changing spaces: the new geographies of the Gaeltacht and Irish language networks- John Walsh        
17. Lessons learned, lessons ignored: The continuing road to an Irish Language Act in Northern Ireland- Janet Muller                           
18. The influence of Wales on policies for Gaelic in Scotland- Wilson McLeod
19. ‘Volunteering for the language in Catalonia’ (VxLl): more than a space for linguistic- mudes
Maite Puigdevall
 20. Afterword- Colin Williams

Notă biografică

Wilson McLeod is Professor of Gaelic at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Author of Gaelic in Scotland: Policies, Movements, Ideologies (2020) and co-editor of Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
Robert Dunbar is Professor of Celtic at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has published widely on language law and policy, and is regularly consulted by international organisations, governments and NGOs on these issues.
Kathryn Jones is Managing Director of IAITH: Y Ganolfan Cynllunio Iaith / Welsh Centre for Language Planning. She is co-editor of Multilingual Literacies: Reading and Writing Different Worlds (2001).John Walsh is Senior Lecturer in Irish at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. He is co-author with Bernadette O’Rourke of New Speakers of Irish in the Global Context: New Revival? (2020).


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This volume celebrates the contribution of Professor Colin Williams, an immensely important and influential scholar in the field of language policy for more than forty years. Eighteen chapters by former students, colleagues and collaborators address a range of topics involving different aspects of language legislation and language rights, governance, economics, territoriality, land use planning, and onomastics. Six chapters address policy issues in Professor Williams’s native Wales while others focus on Canada, Catalonia, Ireland and Scotland. The volume concludes with an Afterword by Professor Williams himself. The book will be suitable for postgraduates and researchers not only in the field of language policy and planning but also sociolinguistics, geography, law and political science.Wilson McLeod is Professor of Gaelic at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Author of Gaelic in Scotland: Policies, Movements, Ideologies (2020) and co-editor of Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
Robert Dunbar is Professor of Celtic at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has published widely on language law and policy, and is regularly consulted by international organisations, governments and NGOs on these issues.
Kathryn Jones is Managing Director of IAITH: Y Ganolfan Cynllunio Iaith / Welsh Centre for Language Planning. She is co-editor of Multilingual Literacies: Reading and Writing Different Worlds (2001).John Walsh is Senior Lecturer in Irish at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. He is co-author with Bernadette O’Rourke of New Speakers of Irish in the Global Context: New Revival? (2020).

Caracteristici

Considers the implications of place and space for the governance of language
Presents case studies on the relationship between language and geography and public policy
Examines a variety of state and sub-state settings across a range of weak and strong minority languages