Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Introduction 1
4. Language conflict and language planning in Ireland 7
5. Conflicting ideologies in contemporary Norwegian language planning 21
6. Sociolinguistic events in an intranational borderland: A nudge to a diverging nation 39
7. Language conflict in Madagascar around AD 700 59
8. Parallels and differences in the linguistic development of modern Greece and modern Norway 83
9. From small to large-scale language conflicts: A philosophical perspective 99
10. Sami language communities and the conflict between Sami and Norwegian 115
11. Language planning from a management perspective: An interpretation of findings 133
12. Conflicts of metaphor in the discussion of language and race 143
13. Contact or conflict? Observations on the dynamics and vitality of European languages 165
14. Language conflict in Jerusalem – 1880 and 1980 179
15. Conflict between Irish and English in the secondary schools of the Connemara Gaeltacht 1986–1988 193
16. On the choice between two written standards in Norway 263
17. Principles of corpus planning – as applied to the spelling reforms of Indonesia and Malaysia 279
18. Some conditions for the survival of small languages 299
19. Index 315