Language, policy and territory : a festschrift for Colin H. Williams / Wilson McLeod, Rob Dunbar, Kathryn Jones, John Walsh, editors.
This volume celebrates the contribution of Professor Colin Williams, an immensely important and influential scholar in the field of language policy for more than forty years. Eighteen chapters by former students, colleagues and collaborators address a range of topics involving different aspects of l...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Part I: Theorising language policy and regulation
- 2. Language policy as a form of public policy
- 3. Language rights, human rights and the right to chat
- 4. Language and space: a new research agenda for urban geolinguistics
- 5. Reflections on language as a vehicle of economic value
- Part II: Language policy challenges in Wales
- 6. Language planning in Wales: Joining the dots
- 7. Recent legal developments in Wales: moving beyond individual to group rights?
- 8. Networked territories of language and nation
- 9. Placemaking: towards rethinking land-use planning and language planning for a thriving
- 10. Signs of the times: Onomastics and language policy in Wales
- 11. Canolfannau Cymraeg a top-down or bottom-up approach to language planning?
- Part III: Language policy challenges in Canada
- 12. Best practices and language policy designs: lessons from Canada and Wales
- 13. F.R. Scott and the origins of language policy in Canada
- 14. The uncertain future of French in Canada
- 15. The planned decline of the English school system in Quebec
- Part IV: Language policy challenges in Ireland, Scotland and Catalonia
- 16. Changing spaces: the new geographies of the Gaeltacht and Irish language networks
- 17. Lessons learned, lessons ignored: The continuing road to an Irish Language Act in Northern Ireland
- 18. The influence of Wales on policies for Gaelic in Scotland
- 19. Volunteering for the language in Catalonia (VxLl): more than a space for linguistic mudes
- 20. Afterword.