Robert Neal Baxter
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert Neal Baxter plays a role.
2023 Interpreting as a part of language planning: A promising opportunity for Breton Language Problems and Language Planning 47:1, pp. 24–48 | Article
The paper opens with a brief overview of the reasons behind the decline of the Breton language in the mid-19th to early 20th Centuries in order to contextualise on-going revitalisation efforts that began in earnest in the 1980s. The discussion then turns to a theoretical review of the literature… read more
2013 Interpreting and minority language planning and policy: Galician as a case study Language Problems and Language Planning 37:3, pp. 227–248 | Article
With potential applications for other minority languages, this paper discusses the implications of interpreting to and from Galician, starting with an overview of the current sociolinguistic situation, and the interpreting and translation market in Galicia in the light of political changes. After… read more
2009 New technologies and terminological pressure in lesser-used languages: The Breton Wikipedia, from terminology consumer to potential terminology provider Language Problems and Language Planning 33:1, pp. 60–80 | Article
Taking the impact of the Wikipedia on the Breton language as a case in point, whilst highlighting the huge potential benefits that new technologies have to offer to economically less viable languages as a whole, this article discusses the way internet-based systems can have an impact on the… read more
2004 Terminology setting for ‘minority’ languages within an ultra prescriptive framework: A case study of corpus planning in Galizan Terminology 10:2, pp. 265–280 | Article
Although centred on the specific terminological field of foreign place names within the particular context of the Galizan language, this paper is also concerned with the much wider issues of methodological coherence in neology and corpus planning on the whole and the impact on non-standardised… read more