Mari C. Jones
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mari C. Jones plays a role.
Articles
Blue-sky thinking? Léon Bollack and La Langue française en l’an 2003. Language Problems and Language Planning 30:3, pp. 215–238
2006. This paper tests the predictions of Bollack’s 1903 article against the now known reality of twenty-first-century French. While many of his claims are undoubtedly naïve, Bollack often proves an astute observer of spoken French, who merely underestimates resistance to change in the written language.… read more | Article
Review of Extra & Gorter (2001): The Other Languages of Europe. Language Problems and Language Planning 25:3, pp. 323–324
2001. Review
Swimming Against the Tide: Language Planning on Jersey. Language Problems and Language Planning 24:2, pp. 167–196
2000. A variety of Romance has been spoken on Jersey for some two thousand years. However Jèrriais, the Norman dialect spoken on the Island today, is now obsolescent. Its decline in fortune has recently prompted a number of corpus and status planning initiatives which, largely devoid of State support,… read more | Article
Death of a Language, Birth of an Identity: Brittany and the Bretons. Language Problems and Language Planning 22:2, pp. 129–142
1998. SOMMAIRE Mort d'une langue, naissance d'une identité: Le cas de la Bretagne Le Duché de Bretagne fut officiellement rattaché à la France en 1532; aujourd'hui encore, il est considéré comme une des régions françaises. Cependant, même si, du point de vue d'un étranger, la Bretagne constitue une unité… read more | Article