TY - JOUR A1 - Tristram, Hildegard L. C. T1 - Sprache und Identität in Minoritätensprachen, zwei Fallbeispiele: Irisch und Bretonisch N2 - Breton and Irish, two Celtic and strongly endangered European minority languages, enjoy (or suffer) different fates of official recognition. While France does not officially recognise Breton as an independent language and has no even signed the European Charter of Minority Languages as most other EU countries did, Irish is by its constitution the first national language of the Republic of Ireland and therefore enjoys a very high official prestige. It is an obligatory subject in the schools and all EU documents need to be translated both into Irish and English. In spite of this difference of status and prestige, both languages have suffered, during the past 50 years, from a dramatic loss of speakers, as the young generation sees no need to preserve a regionalised minority heritage in a world of globalised communication and exchange. While both inherited languages were, traditionally and sociologically speaking, the medium of communication of the rural population, albeit with a long and venerable written tradition reaching back to the middle ages, the language of the future is that of the urban middle classes learnt as a second language (L2) und for all intents and purposes not used as a community language in the home. Middle class Breton and Irish are token languages, serving its users as identity markers in order to set themselves off from the English and French, most of whom only speak English and French and have no additional regional language. The linguistic gap between the inherited rural and the new urban varieties is great, so that older native rural speakers do not understand school Breton and school Irish. It is predictable that only the urban varieties will survive for still quite a while, whereas the rural varietes are unlikely to escape language death due to the ongoing change of living conditions in the rural areas and the absence of localised language engineering. Y1 - 2001 SN - 3-89323-134- X ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schultz, Steffen-R. A1 - Kriesel, Peter A1 - Kenngott, Eva-Maria A1 - Franz, Norbert A1 - Wernet, Andreas A1 - Tristram, Hildegard L. C. A1 - Klein, Armin A1 - Meyer, Till A1 - Erler, Livia A1 - Übelacker, Tanja T1 - Portal = Streitfall: Unterrichtsfach Lebensgestaltung, Ethik, Religionskunde BT - Die Potsdamer Universitätszeitung N2 - Aus dem Inhalt: - Streitfall: Unterrichtsfach Lebensgestaltung, Ethik, Religionskunde - Hasso-Plattner-Institut eingeweiht - Psychologen entwickeln Intelligenztest für Kinder - Studentisches Kulturzentrum in der Stadt T3 - Portal: Das Potsdamer Universitätsmagazin - 11/2001 Y1 - 2001 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-439444 SN - 1618-6893 IS - 11/2001 ER -