Cormack / Hourigan Minority Language Media

Concepts, Critiques and Case Studies
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-85359-965-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Multilingual Matters

This book is an international collection of essays by 14 researchers. Included are essays on general topics on minority language media, as well as studies of specific examples. The contributors are all experienced researchers in this field. The book is the first attempt to define and develop minority language media as a distinct field of study.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cormack, Mike

Hourigan, Niamh

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Studying Minority Language Media - Mike Cormack
2. Functional Completeness: Minority Language Media Provision - Tom Moring
3. Minority Language Media and the Public Sphere - Jacques Guyot
4. The Media and Language Maintenance - Mike Cormack
5. The Role of Networks in Minority Language Media Campaigns - Niamh Hourigan
6. From Media to Multi-Media: Workflows and Language in the Digital Economy - Glyn Williams
7. Speaking Up: A Brief History of Minority Languages and the Electronic Media Worldwide - Donald R. Browne
8. Minority Languages and the Internet: New Threats, New Opportunities - Daniel Cunliffe
9. Linguistic Normalisation and Local Television in the Basque Country - Edorta Arana, Patxi Azpillaga and Beatriz Narbaiza
10. Media Policy and Language Policy in Catalonia - Maria Corominas Piulats
11. The Territory of Television: S4C and the Representation of the “whole of Wales” - Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones
12. Translation and Minority Language Media - Potential and Problems: an Irish Perspective - Eithne O’Connell
13. Signs of Change: Sign Language and Televisual Media in the UK - Paddy Ladd
14. Minority Language Media Studies: Key Themes for Future Scholarship - Niamh Hourigan

Über Autor(innen)

Cormack Mike:
Dr Mike Cormack is a Senior Lecturer at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the Gaelic college on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, part of UHI Millennium Institute, where he is Course Director for the BA in Gaelic and Media Studies. Since the early 1990s he has been publishing articles on minority language media in general, and more specifically on Scottish Gaelic and the media.Hourigan Niamh:
Dr Niamh Hourigan is a College Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at University College Cork. She is the author of Escaping the Global Village: Media, Language and Protest examining campaigns for television in minority languages, and is co-editor of Social Movements and Ireland.Dr Mike Cormack is a Senior Lecturer at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the Gaelic college on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, part of UHI Millennium Institute, where he is Course Director for the BA in Gaelic and Media Studies. Since the early 1990s he has been publishing articles on minority language media in general, and more specifically on Scottish Gaelic and the media. Dr Niamh Hourigan is a College Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at University College Cork. She is the author of Escaping the Global Village: Media, Language and Protest examining campaigns for television in minority languages, and is co-editor of Social Movements and Ireland.