Language, Ethnicity and the State, Volume 1 : Minority Languages In The European Union

His major publications include The Shocking Ballad Picture Show: German Popular Literature and Cultural History (1994) and Ballads into Books (co-editor, 1997). He has also written a number of essays, including those on popular ballads, monstrosities, Goethe, Werner Herzog and hip hop. Cheesman is currently working on an ESRCfunded interdisciplinary project on diaspora literary cultures. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction: Minority Languages, Ethnicity and the State in the European Union....Pages 1-19 Many Tongues but One Voice: a Personal Overview of the Role of the European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages in Promoting Europe’s Regional and Minority Languages....Pages 20-39 State Language Ideology and the Shifting Nature of Minority Language Planning on Corsica....Pages 40-55 ‘Catalan is Everyone’s Thing’: Normalizing a Nation....Pages 56-77 Irish Language, Irish Identity: Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the European Union....Pages 78-103 Ethnic Identity and Minority Language Survival in Brittany....Pages 104-127 When Language Does Not Matter: Regional Identity Formation in Northern Italy....Pages 128-146 ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Lesser-Used Languages of Europe: Common Cause?....Pages 147-168 Back Matter....Pages 169-183 Developments in the European Union over the last decade have been largely positive from the perspective of stateless and minority ethnic groups and the survival and prosperity of minority languages. This selection of sociologically and ethnographically oriented work enables the reader to compare developments in different ethno-linguistic revival movements within the European Union. The contributions also explore the impact of EU policy and discourse on the individual movements and the orientation of Western Europe as a whole towards linguistic heterogeneity and cultural diversity. A companion volume (0-333-92924-1) examines the status of minority languages in post-1989 Eastern Europe. This volume draws on sociologically and ethnographically oriented work from a number of disciplines to allow the reader to compare developments in the different Eastern European states, and to examine the interplay of language issues, ethnic nationalism, and processes of state formation