Minority Language Policy in Europe 09-MLPE
The course will focus on theoretical foundations of minority studies and sociolinguistics of lesser-used languages, with the language policy & language planning in Europe as a whole, European regions and states, as well as with the situation, typologies, historical and cultural background and prospects for Europe’s lesser-used ethnolects, i.e. the regional, minority and non-territorial languages.
Week 1 Introduction; Review of the course content; Basic terminology in language policy
Week 2 Typology of minority language situations in Europe
Week 3 Lesser-used languages and language policy in Poland – part I
Week 4 Lesser-used languages and language policy in Poland – part II
Week 5 Lesser-used languages and language policy in Central-Eastern Europe
Week 6 Lesser-used languages & language policy: Russia and the (post-)Soviet minority language policy;
Week 7 Lesser-used languages & language policy: Scandinavia, the Baltics
Week 8 Lesser-used languages & language policy: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Week 9 Lesser-used languages & language policy: the British Isles
Week 10 Lesser-used languages & language policy: France, the BeNeLux
Week 11 Lesser-used languages and language policy: the Iberian Peninsula
Week 12 Lesser-used languages and language policy in Romania and the Balkans
Week 13 Lesser-used languages & language policy: the Mediterranean and the Caucasus
Week 14 Diaspora languages (Jewish languages, Romani, etc.); Sign languages as minority languages
Week 15 Evaluation
Kryteria oceniania
Attendance is mandatory. Students who with no serious excuse (as illness, etc.) miss more than three meetings will not be graded. Students are expected to participate actively in the seminars. Each participant is expected to prepare a final essay (12 standard pages) on a topic agreed with the lecturer.
Literatura
Atlas de minorités en Europe. De l’Atlantique à l’Oural, deversité culturelle. Paris : Autrement.
Barbour, Stephen & Cathie Carmichael. (eds.) 2002. Language and Nationalism in Europe. Oxford University Press.
Bratt Paulston, Christina & Donald Peckham 1998. Linguistic Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. Multilingual Matters.
Coluzzi, Paolo 2007. Minority Language Planning and Micronationalism in Italy and Spain. Peter Lang.
Extra, Guus & Durk Gorter (eds.) 2001. The other languages of Europe. Multilingual Matters.
Fishman, Joshua 1991. Reversing Language Shift. Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages. Multilingual Matters.
Fishman, Joshua (ed.) 1999. Handbook of Language & Ethnic Identity. Oxford University Press.
Fishman, Joshua (ed.) 2001. Can threatened languages be saved? Reversing Language Shift, Revisited: A 21st Century Perspective. Multilingual Matters.
Goebl, Hans & al. (eds.). 1996. Kontaktlinguistik. Contact Linguistics. Linquistique de contact. Berlin-New York : Walter de Gruyter.
Glaser, Konstatntine 2007. Minority Languages and Cultural Diversity in Europe. Gaelic and Sorbian Perspectives. Multilingual Matters.
Hogan-Brun, Gabrielle & Stefan Wolff (eds.) 2003. Minority Languages in Europe. Frameworks, Status, Prospects. Palgrave Macmillan.
Judge, Anne 2007. Linguistic Policies and the Survival of Regional Languages in France and Britain. Palgrave Macmillan.
Kamusella, Tomasz 2009. The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.
Martí, Fèlix & al. 2005. Words and Worlds. World Languages Review. Multilingual Matters.
Pertot, Susanna, Tom M.S.Priestly & Colin H. Williams (eds.) 2009. Rights, Promotion and Integration Issues for Minority Languages in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.
Regional Dossiers Series. Mercator-Education - http://www.mercator-education.org/research-projects/regional-dossiers
Šatava, Leoš 1994. Národnostní menšiny v Evropĕ. Enciklopedická příručka. Praha : Ivo Železný.
Synak, Brunon & Tomasz Wicherkiewicz (eds.) 1996. Language Minorities and Minority Languages in the Changing Europe. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego.
Trifunovska, Snežana (ed.) 2001. Minority Rights in Europe – European Minorities and Languages. The Hague: T.M.C.Asser Press.
Wirrer, Jan (ed.) 2000. Minderheiten- und Regionalsprachen in Europa. Westdeutscher Verlag.
Woehrling Jean-Marie 2005. The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. A critical commentary. Council of Europe Publishing.
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