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Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts offers insights into the complexities of language planning and policy, and highlights Australian and European - and EU - approaches to the management of multilingualism. These approaches include dealing with indigenous and migrant ethnolinguistic minorities, critical examination of educational policies for the provision of community languages in mainstream schooling, educational initiatives for the linguistic integration of minoritylanguage speakers and community efforts to maintain and/or revitalise minority languages. The chapters offer insights into country-specific policies in Australia, Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Norway,Scotland, Spain and Sweden, and engage in comparative discussions, either between countries within Europe or between Australia and Europe
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1. Managing and maintaining minority languages in the era of globalization : challenges for Europe and Australia / Anne Pauwels -- 2. Community languages and the 2001 Australian census / SandraKipp -- 3. Comparative perspectives on immigrant minority languages in multicultural Europe / Guus Extra -- 4. Maintaining multilingualism in Europe : propositions for a European language policy / Peter Hans Nelde -- 5. Contrasting and comparing minority language policy : Europe and Australia / Joseph Lo Bianco -- 6. Maintaining a language other than English through higher education in Australia /Anne Pauwels -- 7. Inconsistencies and discrepancies in official approaches to linguistic diversity:the case of Norway / Tove Bull -- 8. Communication and community : perspectives on language policy in Sweden and Australia since the mid 1970s / Sally Boyd -- 9. Language maintenance and the secondgeneration : policies andpractices / Joanne Winter and Anne Pauwels
