Survival and Development of Language Communities : : Prospects and Challenges / / ed. by F. Xavier Vila Moreno.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bitenc, Maja,; Boix-Fuster, Emili,; Bretxa, Vanessa,; Farràs, Jaume Farràs i,; Jørgensen, J. Normann,; Nekvapil, Jiří,; Ozolins, Uldis,; Skerrett, Delaney Michael,; Stavans, Anat,; Vila, F. Xavier,
• HerausgeberIn: Vila Moreno, F. Xavier,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Multilingual Matters
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables and Figures --; Contributors --; 1. The Analysis of Medium-Sized Language Communities --; 2. The Main Challenges Facing Czech as a Medium-Sized Language: The State of Affairs at the Beginning of the 21st Century --; 3. Challenges Facing Danish as a Medium-Sized Language --; 4. Slovene, Between Purism and Plurilingualism --; 5. Challenges Faced by a Medium-Sized Language Community in the 21st Century: The Case of Hebrew --; 6. Challenges for the Estonian Language: A Poststructuralist Perspective --; 7. A Small National Language and its Multilingual Challenges: The Case of Latvian --; 8. Is Catalan a Medium-Sized Language Community Too? --; 9. Challenges and Opportunities for Medium-Sized Language Communities in the 21st Century: A (Preliminary) Synthesis --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781847698360; 9783111024738; 9783110663136; 9783110606713
• DOI: 10.21832/9781847698360
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by F. Xavier Vila Moreno.

Too small to be big, but also too big to be really small, medium-sized language communities (MSLCs) face their own challenges in a rapidly globalising world where multilingualism and mobility seem to be eroding the old securities that the monolingual nation states provided. The questions to be answered are numerous: What are the main areas in which the position of these languages is actually threatened? How do these societies manage their diversity (both old and new)? Has state machinery really become as irrelevant in terms of language policy as their portrayals often suggest? This book explores the responses to these and other challenges by seven relatively successful MSLCs, so that their lessons can be applied more generally to other languages striving for long term survival.