Language in society across the Baltic Republics: A comparative overview

There is to date no systematic comparative analysis of work on the significance of language at the levels of the individual and the state across the Baltic. This introductory article reviews recent publications and proposes further aspects of research to be conducted on the language situation in Est...

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Published inJournal of Baltic studies Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 273 - 282
Main Author Hogan-Brun, Gabrielle
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis Group 01.09.2005
Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, Inc
Subjects
Communities
Human rights
Language
Language minorities
Language rights
Multiculturalism
Multilingualism
Nonnative languages
Second language learning
Sociolinguistics
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Summary:There is to date no systematic comparative analysis of work on the significance of language at the levels of the individual and the state across the Baltic. This introductory article reviews recent publications and proposes further aspects of research to be conducted on the language situation in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It also highlights the need to adopt a diachronic approach in language research.⟨/p⟩
ISSN:0162-9778
1751-7877
DOI:10.1080/01629770500000101