Language Contact and Language Conflict : Proceedings of the International Ivar Aasen Conference, 14-15 November 1996..,

Minor rubbing. Inscribed by editor on title-page. VG. Sociolinguistics Volda College Volda [Norway] 1997 orig.wrappers 22x14cm, 320 pp., Series: Publications from the Ivar Aasen Institute, no. 4. Contains 23 papers, all in English. Includes: Language Contact in Relation to Multilingualism, Norms, Status and Standardization -- Language in Identity Politics-- Multilingualism in a Minority-Majority Perspective, with special Regard to the Question of Rights of Language Minorities -- The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages -- The Relationship between Norms, Status and Regulations in a Theoretical Perspective -- The Relationship between Minority and Majority Languages in Latvia -- Language Standardization without Policy or Planning: Zimbabwe as a Case Study -- Norwegian as a Normal Language -- How to Preserve and Strengthen Minority Languages -- :Regulations and Language Planning in Latvia and Lithuania -- Questions of Language Reform, Regulation and Planning in Estonia -- Language as a Constituting Element of National, Regional and Ethnic Identity -- Status and Rights of Sami Language in Norway -- A Norwegian Minority Language: Sign Language - The Intellectual Basis of the Norwegian Language Movement in the 19th Century -- Ivar Aasen's Debt to European Thought. The Regional Perspective -- The Relationship between Political Processes in the Nineteenth Century: Nationalism and Democratisation -- Language Traditionalism and the Nationalism Conflict after 1814 ; etc.