Table of Contents

Introduction: Minority Languages, Ethnicity and the State in the European Union; C.O'Reilly Many Tongues But One Voice: A Personal Overview of the Role of the European Bureau of Lesser Used Languages in Promoting Europe's Regional and Minority Languages; D.Ó.Riagáin State Language Ideology and the Shifting Nature of Minority Language Planning on Corsica; A.Jaffe Catalan is Everyone's Thing: Normalizing a Nation; S.DiGiacomo Irish Language, Irish Identity: Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the European Union; C.O'Reilly Ethnic Identity and Minority Language Survival in Brittany; L.Timm When Language Does Not Matter: Regional Identity Formation in Northern Italy; J.Stacul 'Old' and 'New' Lesser Used Languages of Europe: Common Cause?; T.Cheesman Bibliography Index

Promotional Information

TOM CHEESMAN Lecturer in Gemran, University of Wales, Swansea SUSAN DiGIACOMO Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, Middlebury College, University of Massachusetts ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Southern Mississippi DA"NAL A". RIAG IN Member of the Advisory Council of the European Centre for Minority Issues JARO STACUL Research Associate, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge LENORA TIMM Professor of Chair of Linguistics, University of California, Davis

About the Author

CAMILLE O'REILLY is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Richmond, the American International University in London. She is the author of The Irish Language in Northern Ireland: The Politics and Culture of Identity and of many articles on nationalism, the Irish language and Northern Ireland.

Reviews

...these two volumes offer a superior introduction to the politics of language in Europe and valuable insights to all who work on language, culture and power in the US...highly recommended to all serious readers. Choice