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This study advances a model for Critical Discourse Analysis which draws on Evolutionary Psychology and Cognitive Linguistics, applied in a critical analysis of immigration discourse. It will be of special interest to students and researchers with which to explore new perspectives in CDA.

01 02 Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape provides an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space. It explores minority language situations through the lens of linguistic landscape research. Based on very tangible data it explores the 'same old issues' of language contact and language conflict in new ways. It deepens our understanding of language policies, power relations and ideologies.   The chapters cover a wide geographic area, ranging from Sámi in the far North, to Basque, Catalan and Corsican in the South. From the town of Dingle on the West coast of Ireland to the cities of Kiev and Chisinau in the East of Europe, including the contrasting cases of Israel and Brunei. Combining theoretical approaches from various disciplines to provide a framework which connects real bottom-up data with more abstract research on minority languages, this book will be useful for researchers and students in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and policy sciences, as well as for policy makers. 31 02 Providing an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space this, volume explores minority language situations through the lens of linguistic landscape research 13 02 DURK GORTER Ikerbasque research professor at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. He researches on multilingualism, European minority languages and linguistic landscapes and has published numerous books and articles on those themes. HEIKO F. MARTEN Researcher and lecturer in linguistics at Tallinn University, Estonia. He has published on multilingualism, language policy and minority languages in different European contexts, including his 2009 volume Languages and Parliaments. LUK VAN MENSEL Researcher at the University of Namur, Belgium. He has published on economic aspects of multilingualism and on Dutch, French and foreign language proficiency, in particular in Belgium. 02 02 Providing an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space this volume explores minority language situations through the lens of linguistic landscape research. Based on very tangible data it explores the 'same old issues' of language contact and language conflict in new ways.  04 02 List of Contributors Overview Map of Cases Discussed in this Book Studying Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape; H.F.Marten , L.Van Mensel & D.Gorter PART I: LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES AND LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE 'Latgalian is not a Language': Linguistic Landscapes in Eastern Latvia and how they Reflect Centralist Attitudes; H.F.Marten Transgression as the Norm: Russian in Linguistic Landscape of Kyiv, Ukraine; A.Pavlenko Minority Semiotic Landscapes: An Ideological Minefield?; M.Hornsby & D.Vigers Language Ideological Debates in the Linguistic Landscape of an Irish Tourist Town; M.Moriarty Linguistic Landscape as a Tool for Interpreting Language Vitality: Arabic as a 'Minority' Language in Israel; E.Shohamy & M.A.Ghazaleh-Mahajneh PART II: LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE AND LANGUAGE POLICY Policies vs. Non-policies: Analysing Regional Languages and the National Standard in the Linguistic Landscape of French and Italian Mediterranean Cities; R.Blackwood & S.Tufi Two-way Traffic: How Linguistic Landscapes Reflect and Influence the Politics of Language; G.Puzey The Revitalization of Basque and the Linguistic Landscape of Donostia-San Sebastián; D.Gorter , J.Aiestaran & J.Cenoz All is Quiet on the Eastern Front? Language Contact along the French-German Language Border in Belgium; L.Van Mensel & J.Darquennes PART III: THE DISTRIBUTIVE APPROACH TO LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE The Linguistic Landscape of Three Streets in Barcelona: Patterns of Language Visibility in Public Space; E.Long & L.Comajoan The Linguistic Landscapes of Chi?in?u and Vilnius: Linguistic Landscape and the Representation of Minority Languages in Two Post-Soviet Capitals; S.Muth Multilingual Societies Versus Monolingual States: the Linguistic Landscapes in Italy and Brunei Darussalam; P.Coluzzi Using Linguistic Landscape to Examine the Visibility of Sámi Languages in the North Calotte; H.Salo PART IV: FRESH PERSPECTIVES ON LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE Discourse Coalitions For and Against Minority Languages on Signs: Linguistic Landscape as a Social Issue; E.Szabó-Gilinger , M.Sloboda , L.Šimi?i? & D.Vigers The Linguistic Landscape of Educational Spaces: Language Revitalization and Schools in Southeastern Estonia; K.D.Brown The Material Culture of Multilingualism; L.Aronin & M.Ó Laoire Minority Languages through the Lens of the Linguistic Landscape; L.Van Mensel , H.F.Marten & D.Gorter Index 19 02 This book explores the debate on Minority Languages by examining it through a fresh lens - Linguistic Landscape research Looks at signs across Europe, Eastern Europe and Israel The volume editors are amongst the founding scholars of this new research angle in sociolinguistics Includes many cutting-edge contributions from young scholars

Thebook outlines the evolution and role of minority languages locally and nationally; it investigates current educational language policies in minority areas; and it assesses the social and economic outcomes of language change for communities in contemporary China.

01 02 Following the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, Croatian was declared officially to be a separate language, distinct from Serbian, and linguistic issues became highly politicized. This book examines the changing status and norms of the Croatian language and its relationship to Croatian national identity. It focuses on the period following the creation of an independent Croatian state in 1991, but encompasses broader historical developments to provide a context for understanding the contemporary linguistic situation. The complex history of language standardization in the Yugoslav lands and the emphasis on language planning in Croatia make this an especially interesting case study that offers insight into wider debates about linguistic identity, language policy, and language planning issues in general. 13 02 Keith Langston is Associate Professor of Slavic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Georgia, USA. He is the author of Čakavian Prosody: The Accentual Patterns of the Čakavian Dialects of Croatian and other studies on Slavic phonology and morphology, in addition to research on the sociolinguistic situation in the former Yugoslavia. Anita Peti-Stantić is Professor of South Slavic Languages and the Chair of Slovene Studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the author of Language, Ours and/or Theirs: An Essay on the Comparative History of South Slavic Standardization Processes and a Slovenian-Croatian and Croatian-Slovenian Dictionary , as well as studies on South Slavic word order and clitic placement. 16 02 Greenberg, Robert. 2004. Language and identity in the Balkans. Serbo-Croatian and its disintegration. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Paperback edition 2008.] Currently the only monograph in English dealing with the linguistic situation in the former Yugoslavia. It provides a brief history of the development of standard Serbo-Croatian and language policies in post-World War II Yugoslavia, then focuses on post-1990 language policies in separate chapters on Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. One of the strengths of this work is that it deals with all four successor states using a neoštokavian-based standard language. Consequently, however, it treats them in less detail, and does not examine actual changes in usage. Gröschel, Bernhard. 2009. Das Serbokroatische zwischen Linguistik und Politik. Munich: Lincom Europa. This provides a detailed discussion of key concepts (standard language, variant, variety, etc.) in the linguistic debates in the post-Yugoslav landscape, making extensive reference to works published within Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Rather than providing an objective analysis of the linguistic situation, he focuses more on trying to 'prove' that Serbo-Croatian represents a single language, and that any assertions to the contrary are purely political manipulations of the linguistic facts. Relationship of the proposed book to previous scholarship: Numerous studies on the Croatian standard language, its development, and contemporary norms of usage have been published by Croatian scholars, but this literature is largely insular in nature, often making no explicit reference to general sociolinguistic research on language standardization or language planning. Most of these works are individual articles published in Croatian for a Croatian audience, and therefore they tend to be biased towards the mainstream Croatian interpretation of the facts. Works published in English that deal with the general topics of language planning or language and national identity often mention the languages of the former Yugoslavia as examples, but these are typically very brief discussions, which often present a picture that is radically oversimplified or even inaccurate in some respects. Vanessa Pupavac's book Language Rights: From free speech to linguistic governance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) includes a chapter on the politics of language rights in the former Yugoslavia. There are also several collections of articles published in English that are devoted to the languages of the former Yugoslavia or the South Slavic region as a whole (for example, Ranko Bugarski and Celia Hawkesworth, eds. Language in the former Yugoslav lands. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2004). These collections include some papers on the Croatian language and Croatian linguistic identity since the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, but while these articles may provide an overview of language planning efforts in the 1990s and beyond, they are necessarily limited in scope. The proposed book differs from previous book-length treatments in several significant ways. By focusing on Croatia, it treats the topics of Croatian language planning and linguistic identity in much greater depth. The use of survey and corpus data allows the authors to gauge the effects of language planning efforts, rather than just relying on anecdotal evidence, as most previous works have done. Finally, the book combines the perspectives of its two authors: an insider (a Croatian linguist living and working in Croatia) and an outsider (an American linguist). This provides a more objective approach to the topic, while still taking into account all the nuances and complexity of the linguistic situation in Croatia today. 02 02 Following the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, Croatian was declared to be a separate language, distinct from Serbian, and linguistic issues became highly politicized. This book examines the changing status and norms of the Croatian language and its relationship to Croatian national identity, focusing on the period after Croatian independence. 04 02 PART I: THE CROATIAN LANGUAGE QUESTION IN CONTEXT 1. The Croatian Language Question and Croatian Identity 2. Language and Identity: Theoretical and Conceptual Framework 3. Language, Dialect, or Variant? The Status of Croatian and its Place in the South Slavic Dialect Continuum 4. The History of Croatian and Serbian Standardization PART II: CROATIAN LANGUAGE POLICY AND PLANNING IN THE 1990s AND BEYOND 5. Language Rights and the Treatment of Croatian on the International Level 6. Croatian Language Policy at the National Level and the Regulation of Public Language 7. Institutions of Language Planning 8. Language Purism, Handbooks, and Differential Dictionaries 9. Models of Linguistic Perfection: The Role of the Educational System in Croatian Language Planning 10. The Media and the Message: The Promotion and Implementation of Language Planning in Print, Broadcasts, and on the Internet 11. The Croatian Language Question Today on the Boundary of Identity and Ideology

This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in Scandinavia, Hñähñö in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in turn discussed in international perspective by four counterpart experts.

It was traditionally assumed that a single official language was necessary for the wellbeing of the state, particularly in France and Britain. This assumption is now questioned, and regional languages are making, in some cases, an impressive comeback. This book analyses a range of languages' development, decline and efforts at regeneration.

This book shifts the common perception of specialised or 'LSP' translation as necessarily banal and straightforward towards a more realistic understanding of it as a complex and multilayered phenomenon which belies its standard negative binary definition as 'non-literary'.

What role does race, geography, religion, orthography and nationalism play in the crafting of identities? What are the origins of Singlish? This book offers a thorough investigation of old and new identities in Asia's most global city, examined through the lens of language.

In a unique contribution to understanding the interaction of language policy and planning in modern conflict resolution, Janet Muller provides an insider account of the search for improved status for the Irish language in Northern Ireland from the 1980s.

The author presents a new approach to the study of language policy, by focusing on language policy formation and implementation as a dynamic, conflict-laden process involving the interaction of various actors with different motivations and uneven bargaining powers, rather than as a product, examinable post hoc from existing language legislation.