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Galician and Irish in the European Context : Attitudes Towards Weak and Strong Minority Languages /

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-we...

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Main Author: O'Rourke, Bernadette (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:Palgrave studies in minority languages and communities.
Subjects:
Linguistics.
Comparative Linguistics.
Historical Linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Comparative linguistics.
Historical linguistics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 185 pages)
ISBN:9780230294820
DOI:10.1057/9780230294820