Mari C. Jones
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mari C. Jones is involved.
2006 Blue-sky thinking? Léon Bollack and La Langue française en l’an 2003 Language Problems and Language Planning 30:3, pp. 215–238 | Article
This paper tests the predictions of Bollack’s 1903 article against the now known reality of twenty-first-century French. While many of his claims are undoubtedly naïve, Bollack often proves an astute observer of spoken French, who merely underestimates resistance to change in the written language.… read more
2001 Review of Extra & Gorter (2001): The Other Languages of Europe Language Problems and Language Planning 25:3, pp. 323–324 | Review
2000 Swimming Against the Tide: Language Planning on Jersey Language Problems and Language Planning 24:2, pp. 167–196 | Article
A variety of Romance has been spoken on Jersey for some two thousand years. However Jèrriais, the Norman dialect spoken on the Island today, is now obsolescent. Its decline in fortune has recently prompted a number of corpus and status planning initiatives which, largely devoid of State support,… read more
1998 Death of a Language, Birth of an Identity: Brittany and the Bretons Language Problems and Language Planning 22:2, pp. 129–142 | Article
SOMMAIRE Mort d'une langue, naissance d'une identité: Le cas de la Bretagne Le Duché de Bretagne fut officiellement rattaché à la France en 1532; aujourd'hui encore, il est considéré comme une des régions françaises. Cependant, même si, du point de vue d'un étranger, la Bretagne constitue une unité… read more