Linguistic Minorities, Society and Territory (Multilingual Matters, 78)

Book info: Linguistic Minorities, Society and Territory (Multilingual Matters, 78) (Hardcover, 344 pages) – Multilingual Matters, 1991. Language: English.

This volume presents the latest findings of leading figures in the growing interdisciplinary field of geolinguistics. It outlines the opportunities and tensions facing linguistic minorities in their attempt to influence the structure of the modern state in Europe and North America and offers a synthesis of the complex relationship between territorial identity, social change and economic development in multilingual societies.

Colin H. Williams was Research Professor in Sociolinguistics, now an Honorary Professor, in the School of Welsh, Cardiff University, UK. Currently he is a Visiting Fellow, and a Senior Research Associate of the Von Hügel Institute at St Edmund's College, the University of Cambridge, UK where he specializes in post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation. His main scholarly interests are Sociolinguistics and Language Policy in Multicultural Societies, Ethnic and Minority Relations and Political Geography. Williams has advised government agencies in Europe and North America on minority issues and currently advises the Welsh Government on its Official Language Strategies.