Revitalising Language in Provence: A Critical Approach questions the concept of language revitalization and challenges the field's main tenets through a detailed analysis Southern France's ProvenCal movement, one of Europe's longest standing language revitalisation projects.
Presents a wealth of new research data relating to revitalising language movement
Offers an innovative new way of problematizing language revitalisation
Questions the very concept of language revitalisation and challenges the field's main tenets
Reveals what language...
Revitalising Language in Provence: A Critical Approach questions the concept of language revitalization and challenges the field's main tenets ...
This volume addresses a crucial, yet largely unaddressed dimension of minority language standardization, namely how social actors engage with, support, negotiate, resist and even reject such processes. The focus is on social actors rather than language as a means for analysing the complexity and tensions inherent in contemporary standardization processes. By considering the perspectives and actions of people who participate in or are affected by minority language politics, the contributors aim to provide a comparative and nuanced analysis of the complexity and tensions inherent in minority...
This volume addresses a crucial, yet largely unaddressed dimension of minority language standardization, namely how social actors engage with, supp...
