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oapen-20.500.12657-576372022-07-27T02:58:42Z “No One Will Do This For Us” Dolowy-Rybinska, Nicole Activists Cultural Dołowy Europe’s European language activists language revitalization Linguistic linguistic minorities Minorities multilingual Europe Practices Representing Rybińska speakers of minority languages Will Young young activists bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFB Sociolinguistics bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, etc This book presents a portrait of actively engaged young people representing four linguistic minorities in Europe: the Kashubs (in Poland), the Upper Sorbs (in Germany), the Bretons (in France), and the Welsh (in the United Kingdom). In numerous statements cited in the book, drawn from interviews conducted by the author, young people speak for themselves and serve as guides to their minority cultures. They draw attention to the difficulties and challenges they encounter in their day-to-day life and activism. Based on their statements, the book examines the sociolinguistic situation of each of the minorities, the prevailing linguistic ideologies and the role of minority education; it also distinguishes different types of minority language speakers. The analysis focuses on the cultural and identity-forming practices of young people in the context of different forms of community life and their different pathways to becoming engaged representing their cultures and languages. 2022-07-26T14:40:16Z 2022-07-26T14:40:16Z 2020 book ONIX_20220726_9783631827857_3 9783631827857 9783631827864 9783631827871 9783631827758 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57637 eng Sprach- und Kulturkontakte in Europas Mitte application/pdf n/a 9783631827857.pdf Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/b17208 10.3726/b17208 e927e604-2954-4bf6-826b-d5ecb47c6555 9783631827857 9783631827864 9783631827871 9783631827758 14 392 Bern open access
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This book presents a portrait of actively engaged young people representing four linguistic minorities in Europe: the Kashubs (in Poland), the Upper Sorbs (in Germany), the Bretons (in France), and the Welsh (in the United Kingdom). In numerous statements cited in the book, drawn from interviews conducted by the author, young people speak for themselves and serve as guides to their minority cultures. They draw attention to the difficulties and challenges they encounter in their day-to-day life and activism. Based on their statements, the book examines the sociolinguistic situation of each of the minorities, the prevailing linguistic ideologies and the role of minority education; it also distinguishes different types of minority language speakers. The analysis focuses on the cultural and identity-forming practices of young people in the context of different forms of community life and their different pathways to becoming engaged representing their cultures and languages.
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