[lg policy] Fwd: [Linganth] Revitalising language in Provence: A critical approach
Harold Schiffman
haroldfs at gmail.com
Tue Apr 11 14:19:42 UTC 2017
Forwarded From: James Costa <seamasdubh at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:46 AM
Revitalising language in Provence: A critical approach
*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
Description
*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
Table of Contents
*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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Harold F. Schiffman
Professor Emeritus of
Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Phone: (215) 898-7475
Fax: (215) 573-2138
Email: haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/
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