Revitalising language in Provence a critical approach - Costa, James (Linguist) (Malden, Massachusetts Wiley Blackwell, 2016)
Researching language revitalisation from a critical sociolinguistic perspective -- Language revitalisation: a genealogy -- Defining language revitalisation -- Revitalisation as recategorisation -- Does context work? -- What the Occitan language movement is up against: the French Nationalist Linguistic Project -- Reviving Occitan -- Internal struggles -- Legitimate language and traditional speakers -- Children as ambiguous participants in language revitalisation -- Conclusion: wresting with classifications in a world of signs.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-180) and index.
Keywords: Language revival -- Social aspects -- France -- Provence; Sociolinguistics -- France -- Provence; Provence (France) -- Languages -- Social aspects