TY - BOOK ID - 78146431 TI - Survival and development of language communities : prospects and challenges PY - 2013 VL - 150 SN - 1847698379 1283833794 1847698360 9781847698360 9781847698353 1847698352 9781847698346 1847698344 PB - Bristol: Multilingual matters, DB - UniCat KW - Language and languages KW - Language planning KW - Language policy KW - Glottopolitics KW - Institutional linguistics KW - Language and state KW - Languages, National KW - Languages, Official KW - National languages KW - Official languages KW - State and language KW - Communication policy KW - Planned language change KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Foreign languages KW - Languages KW - Anthropology KW - Communication KW - Ethnology KW - Information theory KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Philology KW - Linguistics KW - Variation KW - History KW - Government policy KW - Planning KW - Language policy - Europe - History - 21st century KW - Language policy - Europe, Central - History - 21st century KW - Language policy - Europe, Eastern - History - 21st century KW - Language planning - Europe - 21st century KW - Language planning - Europe, Central - 21st century KW - Language planning - Europe, Eastern - 21st century KW - Language and languages - Variation - Europe UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78146431 AB - Too small to be big, but also too big to be really small, medium-sized language communities (MSLCs) face their own challenges in a rapidly globalising world where multilingualism and mobility seem to be eroding the old securities that the monolingual nation states provided. The questions to be answered are numerous: What are the main areas in which the position of these languages is actually threatened? How do these societies manage their diversity (both old and new)? Has state machinery really become as irrelevant in terms of language policy as their portrayals often suggest? This book explores the responses to these and other challenges by seven relatively successful MSLCs, so that their lessons can be applied more generally to other languages striving for long term survival. ER -