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Volume 29, Issue 2, 2005
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Globalisation and national communities of communication
Author(s): Joseph Lo Biancopp.: 109–133 (25)More LessUsing the work of Dante to provide a historical perspective, this paper discusses the connection between nations, states and languages. Dante practiced both policy and cultivation approaches and, as a language strategist, he had a profound impact on the language directions of fourteenth-century Italy. By introducing the questione della lingua Dante set the terms of language debate in Italian public life and established himself as a language planner, and as a theorist of nationality and linguistic nationalism. Today, urbanisation, progressive aggregation of populations into larger identity groupings and the globalisation of economies appear to have led to a contraction in the vitality of many languages and pluralisation within and across communication systems. Alongside this reduction in language vitality is the challenge to nationalism itself. What relevance can Dante’s thought offer to those engaged with the possible dissolution of both nations and national languages — key ideas in the poet’s language planning work?
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Language transmission in the family in Wales: An example of innovative language planning
Author(s): Viv K. Edwards and Lynda Pritchard Newcombepp.: 135–150 (16)More LessThis paper examines the achievements to date of Twf (“Growth”) — a project initiated as part of language planning efforts in Wales to encourage families to bring up their children to be bilingual. Evidence is presented of the ways in which the project has succeeded in raising awareness of the advantages of bilingualism amongst parents, prospective parents and the public at large by working strategically with health professionals and Early Years organizations, and by developing a range of highly innovative promotional materials. Given the central importance of the family as a site of intergenerational language transmission, the achievements of this project are likely to be of interest to those concerned with language planning in other minority communities in many other parts of the world. The lessons for language planning both in Wales and in other settings are discussed.
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From internationalisation to globalisation: Language and the nationalist revival in Sweden
Author(s): Leigh Oakespp.: 151–176 (26)More LessIn recent years, much has been made in the media and in academic circles of the risk that the world is heading towards linguistic convergence. But as internationalisation gives way to globalisation, as the emphasis shifts from mere contact between states to pressures for homogeneity, there is a paradoxical tendency towards cultural divergence. Economic-inspired theories of globalisation seem to have underestimated the power of identity, which has contributed to nationalist revivals around the globe. This paper therefore seeks to make identity considerations more central to the current debate on language and globalisation, by focusing on the lesser-known context of Sweden. The minimal importance attributed to national and linguistic identity in Sweden during the era of internationalisation is contrasted with the renewed sense of national identity that has arisen in the more advanced era of globalisation. This nationalist revival could provide the necessary support amongst the general public for the protective language planning measures for Swedish currently proposed. With its traditionally positive attitudes towards English, the case of Sweden thus offers a unique opportunity to examine whether it is possible to establish a stable diglossic relationship between English and a national language, thereby reducing the risk of language shift that globalisation is so often claimed to pose.
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Glück im Unglück: Das Esperantomuseum an der Nationalbibliothek Wien 1938–45
Author(s): Christina Köstnerpp.: 177–186 (10)More LessDie Geschichte des Wiener Esperantomuseums beginnt mit der Gründung im Jahr 1927 und ist sehr eng mit seinem Initiator Hugo Steiner verknüpft, der bis zu seinem Tode 1969 all seine Engagement in den Aufbau „seines“ Museums gelegt hat. In der Zeit der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft in Österreich von 1938 bis 1945 war das Museum geschlossen, Hugo Steiner stand unter Hausarrest, zwei seiner Mitarbeiter wurden in Konzentrationslagern ermordet. Trotz großer Bedrohung (viele Esperantobibliotheken im Deutschen Reich wurden zerstört) überstand das Wiener Esperantomuseum diese Zeit, da der damalige Direktor der Nationalbibliothek Paul Heigl die Bestände in Kisten verpackt im Keller der Bibliothek lagerte und deren Abtransport verhinderte. Die nach dem Krieg wieder aufgestellten Bücher stellten die Grundlage für die heute weltweit größte Fachbibliothek für Interlinguistik dar.
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Humphrey Tonkin and Timothy Reagan (eds.) Language in the Twenty-First Century: Selected Papers of the Millennial Conferences of the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems, Held at the University of Hartford and Yale University
Author(s): John Algeopp.: 205–207 (3)More Less
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