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Authors: Mairead Nic Craith
ISBN-13: 9781403918338, ISBN-10: 1403918333
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: December 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Mairead Nic Craith

Máiréad Nic Craith is Research Professor at the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages at the University of Ulster.

Book Synopsis

This is a new study of speakers of official, minority and disputed languages in an ever-changing European context. Broad policy issues and the performance of the range of instruments of policy at local, national and European levels are illustrated with reference to particular cultural case studies.

Table of Contents

1Europe : discourses of inclusion/exclusion
2Statehood, citizenship and language
3European elites : official languages in the EU
4'A hierarchy of legitimacies' : minority languages
5Languages across borders
6This quest for recognition : contested languages
7Nomads, language and land
8The outsiders : non-European languages
9Europe and the politics of belonging

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