TY - JOUR
AU1 - Fox, Sue
AB - Lang Policy (2009) 8:81–83 DOI 10.1007/s10993-008-9106-7 BOOK REVIEW Anne Pauwels, Joanne Winter and Joseph Lo Bianco (eds): Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts (Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities) Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2007, 224 pp, Hb £47, ISBN 9780230019195 Sue Fox Received: 5 August 2008 / Accepted: 11 August 2008 / Published online: 17 September 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts is a volume arising from a symposium held in Perth, Australia in 2003 that brings together a collection of papers by leading scholars from Europe and Australia on the complexities of language planning and policy in an age of globalisation. Chapter one is an introductory chapter in which Anne Pauwels sets up the challenges of managing and maintaining minority languages in Europe and Australia. She highlights issues common to both continents such as the collection of linguistic demographic data, educational provision for minority language speakers and the impact that the spread of English as the global lingua franca has on the management of languages. Balanced against these concerns, she draws attention to the need to examine the transnational aspect of migration and the effect that improved and cheaper transportation and communication 
TI - Anne Pauwels, Joanne Winter and Joseph Lo Bianco (eds): Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts (Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities)
JF - Language Policy
DO - 10.1007/s10993-008-9106-7
DA - 2008-09-17
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/anne-pauwels-joanne-winter-and-joseph-lo-bianco-eds-maintaining-1tYN3idj0u
SP - 81
EP - 83
VL - 8
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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