The Other Languages of Europe: Demographic, Sociolinguistic and Educational Perspectives (Multilingual Matters, 118) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1853595101 ISBN 13: 9781853595103

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2001

Synopsis

The book offers demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational perspectives on the status of both regional and immigrant languages in Europe and in a wider international context. From a cross-national point of view, empirical evidence on the status of these other languages of multicultural Europe is brought together in a combined frame of reference.

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About the Authors

Guus Extra is director of Babylon, Center for Studies of Multilingualism in the Multicultural Society at Tilburg University (the Netherlands) and professor of language and minorities at the same university.

Durk Gorter is Ikerbasque research professor in the Department of Education Sciences at the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Spain. He conducts research on multilingual education, European minority languages and linguistic landscapes; topics on which he has published widely.

Edition details

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853595101
• ISBN 13: 9781853595103
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Extra Prof. Guus, Gorter Dr. Durk