Revitalizing Minority Languages: New Speakers of Breton, Yiddish and Lemko

Revitalizing Minority Languages: New Speakers of Breton, Yiddish and Lemko

by Michael Hornsby
Revitalizing Minority Languages: New Speakers of Breton, Yiddish and Lemko

Revitalizing Minority Languages: New Speakers of Breton, Yiddish and Lemko

by Michael Hornsby

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Overview

New speakers are an increasingly important aspect of the revitalization of minority languages since, in some cases, they can make up the majority of the language community in question. This volume examines this phenomenon from the viewpoint of three minority languages: Breton, Yiddish and Lemko.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137498793
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 03/15/2016
Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
Edition description: 1st ed. 2015
Pages: 168
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Michael Hornsby is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Celtic languages and literatures, Faculty of English, at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. He has previously worked at the Universities of Aberdeen and the Catholic University of Lublin.

Table of Contents

1. Minority Languages: A Crisis in Authority
2. Legitimate Speakers of Authentic Breton: Who Decides?
3. In Search of Authentic Yiddish
4. Who Speaks for the Lemko Language?
5. New Speakers: The Future of Minority Languages?

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