"What motivates some linguistic minorities to maintain their language? Why do others shift away from it rather quickly? Are there specific conditions - environmental or personal - influencing these dynamics? What can families and communities do to pass on their 'threatened' lang…
The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the first comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement, from the Arctic to the Amazon, and across continents. Featuring 47 contributions from a global range of top scholars in the field, the handbook is divid…
"The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the first comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement, from the Arctic to the Amazon, and across continents. Featuring 47 contributions from a global range of top scholars in the field, the handbook is divi…
China has had constitutional minority language rights for decades, but what do they mean today? Answering with nuance and empirical detail, this book examines the rights through a sociolinguistic study of Zhuang, the language of China's largest minority group. The analysis trace…
"This is the first volume entirely dedicated to Contested Languages. While generally listed in international language atlases, Contested Languages usually fall through the cracks of research: excluded from the literature on minority languages and treated as mere ensembles of geo…
by Pütz, Martin, Heine, Bernd, Dirven, René, Stroud, Christopher, Legère, Karsten, Nelde, Peter H., Batibo, Herman M., Ohly, Rajmund, Webb, Victor N., Lepota, Biki, Ramagoshi, Refilwe, Mtenje, Al, Reh, Mechthild, Mkude, Daniel J., Hurskainen, Arvi, Thornell, Christina, Gromova, Nelli V., Leger, Rudolf, König, Christa, Maho, Jouni F., Rottland, Franz, Grosserhode, Ralf
The papers in this book describe and analyze rara in individual languages, covering an extraordinarily broad geographic distribution, including papers about languages from all over the globe. The range of theoretical subjects discussed shows an enormous breadth, ranging from pho…
While top-down policies and declarations have yet to establish equal status and opportunities for speakers of all languages in practice, activists and advocates at local levels are playing an increasingly significant role in the creation of new social imaginaries and practices i…
In a context where linguistic and cultural diversity is characterized by ever-increasing complexity, adopting official multilingual policies to correct a country's ethno-linguistic, socio-economic, and symbolic imbalances presents many obstacles, but the greatest challenge is im…
