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Dedicated to: Gwynfor Evans and Dnall Riagin who by their inspiration have helped shape a better world for lesser-used language speakers
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Linguistic Minorities, Society and Territory/Edited by Colin H. Williams p. cm. (Multilingual Matters: 78) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Linguistic minorities. 2. Areal linguistics. 3. Language planning. I. Williams, Colin H. II. Series: Multilingual Matters (Series): 78. P119.315.L568 1991 306.4'49dc20
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ISBN 1-85359-132-7 (hbk) ISBN 1-85359-131-9 (pbk)
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UK: Bank House, 8a Hill Road, Clevedon, Avon BS21 7HH, England. USA:1900 Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007, USA. Australia: PO Box 6025, 83 Gilles Street, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia.
Copyright 1991 Colin H. Williams and the authors of individual chapters.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher.
Index compiled by Meg Davis (Society of Indexers). Typeset by Photographics, Honiton, Devon. Printed and bound in Great Britain by the Longdunn Press Ltd, Bristol.
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Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
v
1 Linguistic Minorities: West European and Canadian Perspectives
Colin H. Williams
1
2 Geographical Aspects of Minority Language Situations in Italy
Paul White
44
3 Defining the Gaeltacht: Dilemmas in Irish Language Planning
Reg Hindley
66
4 The Geolinguistics of Breton
Humphrey Lloyd Humphreys
96
5 Language-Retreat and Regeneration in the Present-Day Scottish Gidhealtachd
Kenneth MacKinnon
121
6 An Essay in Historical Geolinguistics: Gaelic Speaking in Urban Lowland Scotland in 1891
C. W. J. Withers
150
7 What Future for Scotland's Gaelic-speaking Communities?
Clive James
173
8 Bicultural Conflict in the Context of the Core-Periphery Model
Don Cartwright
219
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9 The Spatial Organisation of Language in Canada, 1981
John de Vries
247
10 Gaelic in Nova Scotia
John Edwards
269
11 Language Made Visible: Representation in Geolinguistics
J. Ambrose and C. H. Williams
298
12 Conclusion: Sound Language Planning is Holistic in Nature
Colin H. Williams
315
Appendix: International Seminar on Geolinguistics
323
Index
324
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Preface and Acknowledgements
This volume is very much a companion volume to Language in Geographic Context (Williams, 1988) and reflects the steady growth over the past decade in the development of geographers' interest in language. In this context, the first international seminar on Geolinguistics was held in the Department of Geography and Recreation Studies, Staffordshire Polytechnic, in May 1987. The seminar was the initiative of the permanent members of the Department's Centre for Geolinguistic Research, Dr John Ambrose, Professor Colin H. Williams and Dr Stephen Wyn Williams.
The central theme of the seminar was the manner in which geolinguistic analysis could further our undertanding of the plight of linguistic minorities in Western Europe and Canada. Inevitably, given the under-developed state of comparative geolinguistics, there was an undue emphasis on case-study material, and less formal attention was paid to theory. However, we believe that the resulting chapters, together with other publications which were encouraged by the seminar, will contribute to the production of a wider base for geolinguistic studies. The ten papers presented at the seminar have been revised for publication, and I wish to thank the authors for their co-operation in the preparation of this volume. I would also like to thank Mr. M. Hellyer of the Canadian High Commission, London, for a grant towards the hosting of the seminar, and Professor George Kay for making the facilities of the Department available to seminar participants.
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