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Book SynopsisThis volume celebrates the contribution of Professor Colin Williams, an immensely important and influential scholar in the field of language policy for more than forty years. Eighteen chapters by former students, colleagues and collaborators address a range of topics involving different aspects of language legislation and language rights, governance, economics, territoriality, land use planning, and onomastics. Six chapters address policy issues in Professor Williams’s native Wales while others focus on Canada, Catalonia, Ireland and Scotland. The volume concludes with an Afterword by Professor Williams himself. The book will be suitable for postgraduates and researchers not only in the field of language policy and planning but also sociolinguistics, geography, law and political science.
Table of ContentsTables and figuresContributors1. Introduction (
Wilson McLeod, Robert Dunbar, Kathryn Jones and John Walsh)Part I: Theorising language policy and regulation
2. Language policy as a form of public policy(Huw Lewis and Elin Royles)
3. Language rights, human rights and the right to chat- Emyr Lewis
4. Language and space: a new research agenda for urban geolinguistics- Bernadette O’Rourke
5. Reflections on language as a vehicle of economic value- François Grin
Part II: Language policy challenges in Wales
6. Language planning in Wales: Joining the dots- Meirion Prys Jones
7. Recent legal developments in Wales: moving beyond individual to group rights?- Robert Dunbar
8. Networked territories of language and nation- Rhys Jones
9. Placemaking: towards rethinking land-use planning and language planning for a thriving Welsh language- Kathryn Jones
10. Signs of the times: Onomastics and language policy in Wales- Eleri Hedd James
11. Canolfannau Cymraeg – a top-down or bottom-up approach to language planning?- Steve Morri
Part III: Language policy challenges in Canada
12. Best practices and language policy designs: lessons from Canada and Wales- Linda Cardinal and Anastasia Llewellyn
13. F.R. Scott and the origins of language policy in Canada- Graham Fraser
14. The uncertain future of French in Canada- Charles Castonguay
15. The planned decline of the English school system in Quebec- Richard Y. Bourhis
Part IV: Language policy challenges in Ireland, Scotland and Catalonia
16. Changing spaces: the new geographies of the Gaeltacht and Irish language networks- John Walsh
17. Lessons learned, lessons ignored: The continuing road to an Irish Language Act in Northern Ireland- Janet Muller
18. The influence of Wales on policies for Gaelic in Scotland- Wilson McLeod
19. ‘Volunteering for the language in Catalonia’ (VxLl): more than a space for linguistic- mudes
Maite Puigdevall
20. Afterword- Colin Williams
