<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><i class=""><b class="">Apologies for cross-posting</b></i><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dear all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am pleased to inform you that my book entitled <i class="">Revitalising language in Provence: A critical approach</i> is now out. I attach a short description and table of contents at the end of this email</div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class="">It is available in paperback form from <a href="http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-111924353X.html" class="">Wiley Blackwell</a> or through Amazon. It is also available as an ebook from <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-968X.12088/abstract" class="">WileyBlackwell’s website</a> free of charge for scholars whose university subscribe to Wiley’s catalogue. The introduction and the preface by Lenore Grenoble are also available <a href="https://www.academia.edu/31464801/Revitalising_language_in_Provence_A_critical_approach_Preface_by_Lenore_Grenoble_Introduction_" class="">here</a> on <a href="http://Academia.edu" class="">Academia.edu</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes,</div><div class="">James</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="title-component-block" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; padding: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; color: rgb(29, 38, 38); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><h2 class="title-text-heading" style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(2, 95, 98); margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a name="desc" class="">Description</a></h2><div class="title-text-body" id="infoDescription" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><div class="productDetail-richDataText"><i class="">Revitalising Language in Provence: A Critical Approach</i> 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. <br class=""><ul style="padding-left: 20px; margin: 18px 0px;" class=""><li class="">Presents a wealth of new research data relating to revitalising language movement</li><li class="">Offers an innovative new way of problematizing language revitalisation</li><li class="">Questions the very concept of language revitalisation and challenges the field’s main tenets</li><li class="">Reveals what language revitalisation movements really stand for, what they use language for, and who the people spearheading these movements are</li></ul></div></div><a name="see-less-desc" class=""></a></div><div class="title-component-block" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; padding: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; color: rgb(29, 38, 38); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><h2 class="title-text-heading" style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; color: rgb(2, 95, 98); margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a name="toc" class="">Table of Contents</a></h2><div class="title-text-body" id="infoTableof" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; height: auto; overflow: hidden;"><div class="productDetail-richDataText"><p style="margin: 18px 0px;" class=""><b class="">Acknowledgements </b></p><p style="margin: 18px 0px;" class=""><b class="">Preface </b></p><p style="margin: 18px 0px;" class=""><b class="">1. Researching language revitalisation from a critical sociolinguistic perspective </b></p><p style="margin: 18px 0px;" class=""><b class="">2. Language revitalisation: a genealogy </b></p><p style="margin: 18px 0px;" class=""><b class="">3. Defining language revitalisation </b></p><p style="margin: 18px 0px;" class=""><b class="">4. Revitalisation as recategorisation </b></p><p style="margin: 18px 0px;" class=""><b class="">5. Does context stink?</b></p><p style="margin: 18px 0px;" class=""><b class="">6. What the Occitan Language movement is up against: the French Nationalist and Linguistic Project </b></p><p style="margin: 18px 0px;" class=""><b class="">7. Reviving Occitan </b></p><p style="margin: 18px 0px;" class=""><b class="">8. Internal struggles </b></p><p style="margin: 18px 0px;" class=""><b class="">9. Legitimate language and traditional speakers </b></p><p style="margin: 18px 0px;" class=""><b class="">10. Children as ambiguous participants in language revitalisation </b></p><p style="margin: 18px 0px;" class=""><b class="">11. Conclusion: wrestling with classifi cations in a world of signs </b></p><p style="margin: 18px 0px;" class=""><b class="">References </b></p><p style="margin: 18px 0px;" class=""><b class="">Index</b></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>