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Governance, Policy-Making and Language Revitalisation

Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation, 2021
This essay reflects on the significance for contemporary language revitalisation programmes of regionalisation, internationalisation, the continued advance of the market and the emergence of post-welfare models of governance, drawing on evidence from Wales, Scotland, Catalonia, the Basque Autonomous Community and Ireland.
Huw Lewis, Wilson McLeod
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Introduction: Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation

Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation, 2021
This introductory chapter elaborates on some of the main instances of contemporary social, economic and political change that are posited as having potentially important implications for current efforts to pursue language revitalisation. Based on that discussion it then turns to review the literature on language revitalisation in order to highlight ...
Huw Lewis, Wilson McLeod
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When language revitalisation transcends linguistic issues: Motivations for the revitalisation of Tonga

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2021
This article presents findings from research on Tonga language revitalisation. Tonga is a formerly marginalised indigenous language  spoken in north-western Zimbabwe. It is part of Zimbabwe’s linguistic ecology comprising 16 officially recognised languages that exist in a polyglossic situation.
Jubilee Chikasha, Anne-Marie Beukes
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Queering Language Revitalisation

John Walsh   +6 more
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Revitalising contested languages

2021
Abstract This chapter opens with an introduction to the Lombard language and its institutional and sociolinguistic situation, including the reasons why the term “language” is used and not the commonly used “dialect”. The second and main part of the chapter looks
Paolo Coluzzi   +2 more
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