The book aims to establish the concept of attitudes as more central to the study of minority and majority languages. The strong tradition of attitude theory and
Just about everyone seems to have views about language. Language attitudes and language ideologies permeate our daily lives. Our competence, intelligence, frien
The analysis of language attitudes is important not only because attitudes can affect language maintenance and language change but also because such reflections
This book presents a detailed sociolinguistic study of the traditionally Catalan-speaking areas of Southern France, and sheds new light on language attitudes, p
These in-depth case studies provide novel insights in to the fast-changing language situation in multilingual China, and how it changes the meanings of language