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Gabrielle Hogan-Brun and Stefan Wolff (eds.), Minority languages in Europe: Frameworks, status, prospects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2006

LUKAS D. TSITSIPIS
LUKAS D. TSITSIPIS
Affiliation:
Department of French, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece, [email protected]
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Gabrielle Hogan-Brun and Stefan Wolff (eds.), Minority languages in Europe: Frameworks, status, prospects. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xiii, 238. Hb $69.95.

This volume continues and extends an interest in the dynamics of minority languages in Europe which has already appeared in related works in which some of this volume's participants have been contributors or editors. The major theoretical framework that unifies and offers coherence to the contributions is that of a macro-sociological, macro-sociolinguistic perspective with links to political theory, and detailed discussions of policy in the context of European power structures. Against this emphasis, micro-interactional processes and linguistic ideologies emerging from within the local communities are not afforded the same degree of attention, even though they are not entirely absent from some at least of the volume's chapters.

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Language in Society , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , July 2006 , pp. 432 - 437
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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