[Linganth] Revitalising language in Provence: A critical approach

[James Costa]

Apologies for cross-posting

Dear all,

I am pleased to inform you that my book entitled Revitalising language in Provence: A critical approach is now out. I attach a short description and table of contents at the end of this email

It is available in paperback form from Wiley Blackwell <http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-111924353X.html> or through Amazon. It is also available as an ebook from WileyBlackwell’s website <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-968X.12088/abstract>  free of charge for scholars whose university subscribe to Wiley’s catalogue. The introduction and the preface by Lenore Grenoble are also available here <https://www.academia.edu/31464801/Revitalising_language_in_Provence_A_critical_approach_Preface_by_Lenore_Grenoble_Introduction_> on Academia.edu.

Best wishes,
James

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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 Provençal 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 revitalisation movements really stand for, what they use language for, and who the people spearheading these movements are
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Acknowledgements 

Preface 

1. Researching language revitalisation from a critical sociolinguistic perspective 

2. Language revitalisation: a genealogy 

3. Defining language revitalisation 

4. Revitalisation as recategorisation 

5. Does context stink?

6. What the Occitan Language movement is up against: the French Nationalist and Linguistic Project 

7. Reviving Occitan 

8. Internal struggles 

9. Legitimate language and traditional speakers 

10. Children as ambiguous participants in language revitalisation 

11. Conclusion: wrestling with classifi cations in a world of signs 

References 

Index
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