Publications

Publication details [#58015]

Soler, Josep. 2013. The anonymity of Catalan and the authenticity of Estonian: two paths for the development of medium-sized languages. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 16 (2) : 153–163.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | ethnolinguistics | ideology | language use | minority language

Language as a subject

Catalan | Estonian

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This ethnographic study (2008–2009) discusses how two ‘medium-sized’ languages, Catalan and Estonian, may develop, get adopted by ‘new speakers' and obtain a stable position as to their public functions.