This volume is a compendium of articles on linguistic minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, namely Austria, the Caucasus, the Balkans, the Baltic countries (mainly Latvia), Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Romania and Slovakia. The introduction discusses a theoretical framework of the contextual situations of language maintenance and shift in which we find linguistic minorities and bilingualism. The intention of the other chapters is basically descriptive where each chapter stands alone and can be read simply for the information it contains. If the chapters are considered together, trends and generalizations emerge, with possibilities for model building and theory testing. Our sociolinguistic ignorance of this part of the world is quite astounding and this book is a first step to remedy that situation.
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Christina Bratt Paulston is a professor of linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh. Her academic training has been at Carleton College, University of Minnesota, and Columbia University. She has published in the fields of language teaching, teacher training, language planning, bilingual education, and sociolinguistics. She was President of TESOL in 1976 and trustee of the Center of Applied Linguistics from 1976-81. Don Peckham (MA, University of Pittsburgh, 1995) is a doctoral candidate in linguistics with specialization in second language acquisition at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently an assistant lecturer at Jozsef Attila University in Szeged, Hungary.
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Contributors
1 Christina Bratt Paulston: Linguistic Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe: An Introduction
2 Rudolf de Cillia, Florian Menz, Wolfgang U. Dressler and Petra Cech: Linguistic Minorities in Austria
3 Hugh Poulton: Linguistic Minorities in the Balkans (Albania, Greece and the Successor States of the former Yugoslavia)
4 Bonka Boneva: Ethnicity and the Nation: The Bulgarian Dilemma
5 Sergei Arutiunov: Linguistic Minorities in the Caucasus
6 J. Nekvapil and J. V. Neustupny: Linguistic Communities in the Czech Republic
7 Anna Fenyvesi: Linguistic Minorities in Hungary
8 Ina Druviete: Republic of Latvia
9 Peter Jordan: Romania
10 Harald Haarmann: Multilingual Russia and its Soviet Heritage
11 Martin Votruba: Linguistic Minorities in Slovakia
