This volume presents the latest findings of leading figures in the growing interdisciplinary field of geolinguistics. It outlines the opportunities and tensions facing linguistic minorities in their attempt to influence the structure of the modern state in Europe and North America and offers a synthesis of the complex relationship between territorial identity, social change and economic development in multilingual societies.
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Colin H. Williams was Research Professor in Sociolinguistics, now an Honorary Professor, in the School of Welsh, Cardiff University, UK. Currently he is a Visiting Fellow, and a Senior Research Associate of the Von Huegel Institute at St Edmund's College, the University of Cambridge, UK where he specializes in post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation. His main scholarly interests are Sociolinguistics and Language Policy in Multicultural Societies, Ethnic and Minority Relations and Political Geography. Williams has advised government agencies in Europe and North America on minority issues and currently advises the Welsh Government on its Official Language Strategies.
Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Colin H. Williams: Linguistic Minorities: West European and Canadian Perspectives
2. Paul White: Geographical Aspects of Minority Language Situations in Italy
3. Reg Hindley: Defining the Gaeltacht: Dilemmas in Irish Language Planning
4. Humphrey Lloyd Humphreys: The Geolinguistics of Breton
5. Kenneth MacKinnon: Language-Retreat and Regeneration in the Present-Day Scottish Gaidhealtachd
6. C. W. J. Withers: An Essay in Historical Geolinguistics: Gaelic Speaking in Urban Lowland Scotland in 1891
7. Clive James: What Future for Scotland's Gaelic-speaking Communities?
8. Don Cartwright: Bicultural Conflict in the Context of the Core-Periphery Model
9. John de Vries: The Spatial Organisation of Language in Canada, 1981
10. John Edwards: Gaelic in Nova Scotia
11. J. Ambrose and C. H. Williams: Language Made Visible: Representation in Geolinguistics
12. Colin H. Williams: Conclusion: Sound Language Planning is Holistic in Nature
Appendix: International Seminar on Geolinguistics
