Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts

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Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts

Author	: A. Pauwels
File Size	: 40,9 Mb
Publisher	: Springer
Language	: English
Release Date	: 17 April 2007
ISBN	: 9780230206397
Pages	: 209 pages

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Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts by A. Pauwels Book PDF Summary

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 from Australia and Europe on the maintenance of linguistic diversity.

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