Craig Willis is a Senior Research and Project Consultant at the European Centre for Minority Issues, as well as the Chair of the PLURILINGMEDIA COST Action (CA23105). His doctoral work focused comparatively on minority language media, particularly public broadcasters and their convergence with social media platforms.
Language Plurality in Media is concise guide to the literature on media in minority languages since the 1980s, framed as three waves of distinct scholarship.
The chapters incorporate cases of minority, minoritised, endangered and indigenous languages in both traditional media forms and modern social media. The three waves model is unpacked in separate chapters which form Part One of the book, followed by four chapters of consistent themes in Part Two. Throughout, the overarching aim of language maintenance and revitalisation is stressed, demonstrating that minority language media and indigenous language media are distinct academic subfields situated between sociolinguistics and media and communications studies. The changing role of radio, television and printed press is highlighted, alongside the emergence and development of social media from written form to audiovisual form. The third wave of the book covers literature post-2020 and looks forward to future topics, discussing whether a fourth wave could emerge and what it could be characterised by.
This insightful book will interest students and scholars of media and communication studies with an interest in minority languages, sociolinguistics, media policy and language policy.
1. Introduction Part One 2. The First Wave; 3. The Second Wave; 4. The Third Wave Part Two 5. Language Revitalisation; 6. Precarity; 7. Genre Completeness; 8. Contexts Beyond Europe; 9. Conclusion; Index
This book is concise guide to the literature on media in minority languages since the 1980s, framed as three waves of distinct scholarship. It will interest students and scholars of media and communication studies with an interest in minority languages, sociolinguistics, media policy and language policy.
