The potential of parliaments for the empowerment of linguistic minorities: Experiences from Scotland and Norway

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Preface v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Contents ix
5. Introduction: Along the routes to power xiii
6. Section 1. Theoretical perspectives: Linguistic empowerment and language choices
7. Sociolinguistics: More power(s) to you! (On the explicit study of power in sociolinguistic research) 3
8. The power of language, the language of power 13
9. Language endangerment, the construction of indigenous languages and world English 35
10. The power to choose and its sociolinguistic implications 55
11. How codeswitching as an available option empowers bilinguals 73
12. Section 2. Language policy and language planning: Empowering speakers of minority languages in communities and institutions
13. Language policy failures 87
14. Empowerment through the community language – A challenge 107
15. Pidgins and Creoles between endangerment and empowerment: A dynamic view of empowerment in the growth and the decline of contact languages, especially in the Pacific 129
16. Lost in transculturation: The case of bilingual education in New York City 157
17. Language policies in Spain: Accommodation or alteration? 179
18. The potential of parliaments for the empowerment of linguistic minorities: Experiences from Scotland and Norway 199
19. The dominance of languages and language communities in the European Union (EU) and the consequences 217
20. Section 3. The language empowerment discourse: Case studies of language policy and language planning in Africa
21. Socio-political factors in the evolution of language policy in post-Apartheid South Africa 241
22. Marginalisation and empowerment through educational medium: The case of the linguistically disadvantaged groups of Botswana and Tanzania 261
23. Language policy, cultural rights and the law in Botswana 285
24. We speak Otjiherero but we write in English – Disempowerment through language use in participatory extension work 305
25. Empowerment through English – A realistic view of the educational promotion of English in postcolonial contexts: The case of Nigeria 333
26. Life in a Tower of Babel without a language policy 357
27. JK Nyerere of Tanzania and the empowerment of Swahili 373
28. Living on borrowed tongues? A view from within 405
29. Index 421