Globalizing Language

An Irish Language Perspective
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-00560-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 151 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3109 g

Reihe: Language and Globalization

The book examines the changing relationship between minority languages and language policy and planning in the context of globalization, through an examination of the Irish language context. It demonstrates how localized practices are involved in the refashioning of the value of the Irish language.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moriarty, Máiréad

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachpolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Setting the Scene
2. Globalization and Minority Language Planning and Policy
3. The Irish Language in Globalization
4. Site 1: Media, LPP and Globalization
5. Site 2: Comedy, LPP and Globalization
6. Site 3: Hip Hop, LPP and Globalization
7. Site 4: Tourism, LPP and Globalization

8. Concluding Remarks: Globalizing LPP

Über Autor(innen)

Máiréad Moriarty is a Lecturer in Sociolinguistics and New Media at the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics, University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests lie in the field of multilingualism and in minority language policy and planning and she has published widely on these themes.