Language, Democracy and Devolution in Catalonia

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Eight linguists, political scientists, and sociologists respond to the seminar paper of the Director of the Institut de Socioling<:u><'i>sta Catalana, Miquel Strubell, advocating a kind of affirmative action to protect minority languages from market forces in the post-Franco era. The editor provides geographical and historical context to the Catalan/Castilian-speaking debate over whether "normalization" in this region means linguistic-cultural integration or displacement. Lacks an index. Distributed in the US by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)