Synopses & Reviews
This volume deals with challenges to the maintenance of minority (or community) languages in this era of globalization and increasing transnational movements of people. The contributors, experts in language policy, language maintenance and multilingualism offer complementary perspectives drawn from Australia and Europe on the maintenance of linguistic diversity.
Synopsis
This book provides a comparison of how, in a transnational world, Australia and Europe are dealing with the issue of managing and maintaining multilingualism through language policies.
About the Author
ANNE PAUWELS is Professor of Linguistics and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia, Australia. She is Chair of the Steering Committee for an Australian national research project
Innovative Approaches to Provision of Languages Other Than English in Australian Higher Education. She is the author of
Boys and Foreign Language Learning, Women Changing Language, Cross Cultural Communication in the Health Sciences and co-author of
Immigration and Australia's Language Resources.
JOANNE WINTER is Senior Research Fellow, Dean's Office, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia, Australia. Her research focuses on the interaction of discourse, identities and gender.
JOSEPH LO BIANCO is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Australia's first language policy The National Policy on Languages [NPL] (1987). He publishes in multiculturalism, literacy education, language maintenance, planning
Table of Contents
List of Tables * Acknowledgements * Notes on Contributors * Introduction: Managing and Maintaining Minority Languages in the Era of Globalization: Challenges for Europe and Australia--A.Pauwels * PART I: DEMOGRAPHY AND MEANING * Community Languages and the 2001 Australian Census--S.Kipp * Comparative Perspectives on Immigrant Minority Languages in Multicultural Europe--G.Extra * PART II: POLICY AND PLANNING * Maintaining Multilingualism in Europe: Propositions for a European Language Policy--P.H.Nelde * Contrasting and Comparing Minority Language Policy: 'Europe' and Australia--J.Lo Bianco * PART III: POLICY AND PRACTICE IN SPECIFIC SETTINGS * Maintaining a Language Other than English Through Higher Education in Australia--A.Pauwels * Inconsistencies and Discrepancies in Official Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: The Case of Norway--T.Bull * Communication and Community: Perspectives on Language Policy in Sweden and Australia Since the mid 1970s--S.Boyd * Language Maintenance and the Second Generation: Policies and Practices--J.Winter & A.Pauwels * Index