[lg policy] Fwd: [Linganth] Revitalising language in Provence: A critical approach

[Harold Schiffman]

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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