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This blends discussion of the role of language minorities in politics with examples of language policy in a range of national contexts. It discusses minority rights and language protection, the policies of the state in privileging powerful majorities, the opportunities and challenges of both devolution and globalization

Intro -- Introduction -- Introducción -- Part 1: Accessibility / Accesibilidad -- Christiane Maaß, Silvia Hansen-Schirra -- Removing barriers: Accessibility as the Primary Purpose and Main Goal of Translation -- Sergio Hernández Garrido -- Comprensibilidad de formatos multicodales y multimodales para contrarrestar la falta de alfabetización en salud en Colombia -- Cláudia Martins, Cláudia Ferreira -- Accessibility as far as the eye can see: an accessible film festival -- Luz Belenguer Cortés -- La Subtitulación en Vivo y la Audiodescripción en Lenguas Minoritarias: el Caso de la Televisión Autonómica Valenciana À Punt Mèdia -- Maher Tyfour -- The Acoustic Restaging of the City of Munich in the Audio Descriptions of Tatort -- Eleonora Sasso -- Subtitling the Cinema of Inuit Minorities -- Part II: Intralinguistic translation / Traducción intralingüística -- Jean Nitzke, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Ann-Kathrin Habig, Silke Gutermuth -- Translating Subtitles into Easy Language: First considerations and empirical investigations -- LIV BORGHARDT -- The processing of causal clauses in Easy Language - First evidence -- Silvana Deilen -- Visual segmentation of compounds in Easy Language: Does the marking of morpheme boundaries reduce cognitive processing costs? -- Sarah Ahrens -- Easy Language Translations for Second Language Learners - Worthwhile Concept or Didactic Mistake? -- Lucía Navarro-Brotons, Analía Cuadrado-Rey -- El nacimiento de un perfil profesional emergente en España: traductor a lectura fácil intralingüística e interlingüística -- Catalina Jiménez Hurtado, Ana Medina Reguera -- Metodología de la traducción a lectura fácil: retos de investigación.

The subject of this book is linguistic minorities, and how language is used by speakers of languages which are not the main language of communication. This is a core topic for sociolinguists, who examine how language is actually used within a given context. Globalization, migration, and the erosion of nationhood is creating far more linguistic minorities as society becomes increasingly pluralistic. One of the major sites of contact between languages is the school, and this book focuses on linguistic interaction within this educational context. Through a careful examination of the language prac