Concluding Remarks: Towards An Understanding Of Media Impact On Minority Language Use

2013 ◽  
pp. 255-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Cormack
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Media Impact

scholarly journals Critical Mass and Insecurity in Minority Language Policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-316
Author(s):  
C.F. Huws
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Welsh Language ◽  
Minority Language Policy

This article will discuss the extent to which legislation is effective in terms of changing individual and group behaviours. The specific focus of this article will be to argue that legislation pertaining to the use of the Welsh language in Wales, despite having expanded the domains of language use in an important way, has not shifted the cycle of language non-use that may be identified.

The Twofold Role of a Minority Language in Historical Trauma: The Case of Lemko Minority in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-566
Author(s):  
Magdalena Skrodzka ◽  
Karolina Hansen ◽  
Justyna Olko ◽  
Michał Bilewicz
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Long Term Consequences

Tragic collective events bring about long-term consequences for affected groups. These effects not only affect the immediate victims of trauma, but can also influence subsequent generations. In the present research, we examined the effects of minority language use on historical trauma. In a study of 237 Lemko participants, members of a severely victimized ethnic minority in Poland, we tested the effects of cognitive availability of historical trauma on three categories of trauma-related symptoms: emotional, behavioral, and depressive. The study found that minority language use is positively related to cognitive availability of trauma, but it also limits the effects of such availability on trauma-related symptoms. Based on this finding, we discuss the potential of minority language use to act as a social cure protecting from the negative psychological consequences of historical trauma.

5 Minority language use in Ireland: The time dimension

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Singleton ◽  
Larissa Aronin ◽  
Lorna Carson
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Time Dimension

Territoriality and Minority Language Rights

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balázs Vizi
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Language Rights ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Technical Approach ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Minority Language Rights

Territorial principle emerges not only in domestic legislations on language rights, but also in international documents. The article aims at offering an overview of the interpretations of territoriality in international documents relevant for minority language rights, with a special focus on the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages and the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. While states often use territorial requirements as a tool of political control over minority language use, the interpretation of their obligations under the two Council of Europe treaties would require a more practical and technical approach to territorial limitations.

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