Minority Languages and Markets

Pietikäinen, Sari; Kelly‐Holmes, Helen; Rieder, Maria

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“…Recently, there has been substantial scholarship on the relation of minority languages with economics, markets, e-commerce and commodification (Cunliffe et al, 2010; Hogan-Brun and O’Rourke, 2018; Pietikäinen et al, 2019), the impact of some media funding projects such as the BBC Alba (Chalmers et al, 2012), the cost-effectiveness evaluation of minority language policies (Grin and Vaillancourt, 1999) and the triangle of demand, supply and use of minority language media (Broughton Micova, 2013). This study may also contribute to add another systematic perspective, valuable to academics and language policy experts.…”

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Economy and funding of European minority language media: Reality and impact of digitalization and economic crisis

Urkiola¹,

Xamardo

2020

Journalism

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This article investigates the economy of monolingual media systems in nine European minority language communities during 2009–2015, a period of strong economic crisis and accelerated digitalization. The main areas of study are three: The economic volume or weight of those media systems and its variation between 2009 and 2015; the current funding structure of the four media types (press, radio, TV and cybermedia); and the qualitative evaluation of media editors and managers on the effect of those two crises as well as the significance of the public aid. The nine European minority languages are Basque, Welsh, Galician, Irish, Breton, Frisian, Sámi, Corsican and Scottish-Gaelic. As for the findings, it can be highlighted that the economic volume or revenue of European minority language media is close to five hundred million euros per year, of which over ninety per cent is public funding, mostly devoted to broadcasting media. The conclusion set forth is that public funding should not be framed as aid but as a social, cultural and economic investment.

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Economy and funding of European minority language media: Reality and impact of digitalization and economic crisis

Urkiola¹,

Xamardo

2020

Journalism

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Investment and the inaudible mother tongue: Carving out a space for Kurdish in the soundscape of an Istanbul kebab restaurant

Schluter

2023

Lang. Soc.

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Firmly grounded in local sociopolitical constraints, language policies at Istanbul's Kurdish-run eating establishments often place Kurdish employees’ cultural identity construction at odds with their workplaces’ economic viability. In the face of rigid structures that cement the dominance of Turkish, the Kurdish managers highlighted in a previous study exercise limited agency to enact language policies that align with their pro-Kurdish ideologies, rendering Kurdish largely invisible. This article revisits these themes by examining a nearby Kurdish-run restaurant with a language policy that violates this norm. Applying Darvin & Norton's (2015) model of investment, analyses of observations and interviews consider identity, ideology, and economic capital vis-à-vis employees’ perceived valuation of Kurdish as a workplace language. Results suggest that capital ownership emboldens the audible articulation of Kurdish identities, which emerge from pluricentrically oriented ideologies, fostering resistance to local language policy norms. (Investment, language policy, capital, Kurdish, ideology, pluricentricity)

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Language Policy in Business

Barakos

2020

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture

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Minority Languages and Markets

Cited by 6 publications

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Economy and funding of European minority language media: Reality and impact of digitalization and economic crisis

Economy and funding of European minority language media: Reality and impact of digitalization and economic crisis

Investment and the inaudible mother tongue: Carving out a space for Kurdish in the soundscape of an Istanbul kebab restaurant

Language Policy in Business

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