{"product_id":"revitalising-language-in-provence-9781119243533","title":"Revitalising Language in Provence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevitalising Language in Provence: A Critical Approach\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents a wealth of new research data relating to revitalising language movement\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers an innovative new way of problematizing language revitalisation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eQuestions the very concept of language revitalisation and challenges the field's main tenets\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReveals what language revitalisation movements really stand for, what they use language for, and who the people spearheading these movements are\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreface \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Researching language revitalisation from a critical sociolinguistic perspective \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1. Saving authentic languages vs. inventing new ones\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2. Language revitalisation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3. Language revitalisation in Academic Work\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4. Revitalising Occitan in Southern France: Occitania and Provence\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5. Positioning\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6. Critical sociolinguistics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.7. Volume outline\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRevitalising \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Language revitalisation: a genealogy \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1. Introduction: investigating language revitalisation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2. The Precursors: antiquarians and French Revolutionaries\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3. North American scholarship: anthropology and sociolinguistics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4. Descriptive linguistics and language endangerment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5. Language revitalisation and linguistics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6. Language documentation and description established\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Defining language revitalisation \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1. Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2. Defi ning revitalisation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3. Establishing a discourse of diagnosis and remedy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4. Critical approaches to endangerment and revitalisation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5. Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Revitalisation as recategorisation \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1. Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2. Rethinking revitalisation as a social movement\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3. Revitalisation as a conscious effort to implement social change\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4. Revitalisation and culture change in later debates\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5. The study of language revitalisation movements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5.1. Proposition 1: language revitalisation, as a social movement, is about groupness\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5.2. Proposition 2: language revitalisation as the consequence of social contact\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5.3. Proposition 3: language revitalisation is fundamentallya struggle over classifi cations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5.4. Language revitalisation is ultimately not about language or even about past linguistic hierarchies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.6. Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConflict in the Occitan South of France \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Does context stink?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1. Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2. The Predicament of contextualising: does context stink?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3. Language revitalisation in the South of France: who are we talking about?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3.1. Experts: legitimising knowledge and revitalisation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3.2. Language advocates: disseminating the revitalization narrative\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3.3. Traditional and new speakers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4. Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. What the Occitan Language movement is up against: the French Nationalist and Linguistic Project \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1. Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2. Narratives of Frenchness\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3. Erasing linguistic Otherness in the Sixteenth century\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4. Patois and the construction of citizenship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5. Dialectology and the linguistic making of France\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.6. The French nationalist project and the marginalisation of the South\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.7. Conclusion: a new world ready for language revivals to happen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Reviving Occitan \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1. Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2. The first ‘Occitan’ revivals?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3. The contemporary language movement in Southern France: from the Felibrige to the Institut d’Estudis Occitans\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4. The primacy of place, or the identifi cation of language and territory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5. History: imagining the past and calling the future into being\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6. Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Internal struggles \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1. Introduction: language revitalisation as a terrain for language ideological debates\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2. Nineteenth century linguistic ideological debates: who can speak on behalf of the South?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2.1. History as a shaping discipline\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2.2. Early orthographic debates\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2.3. Representing the South\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3. Contemporary struggles: Provençal as a language in its own right or as an Occitan dialect\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.1. Ideological roots of contemporary linguistic arguments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.2. Diversity and the endangerment discourse of the 1980s and 1990s: setting the old song to a new tune\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.3. A rose by any other name would not smell as sweet: the collectif prouvènço, a new player in provençal language politics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.4. Occitan globalisation and the shaming of the Occitan middle class\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4. Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLegitimacy \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. Legitimate language and traditional speakers \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1. Introduction: fi nding the ‘traditional speaker’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2. ‘Language’ according to traditional speakers in provence\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3. Terminological confusion in orange\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3.1. Categorising speech and language: ‘patois’ and ‘mistralien’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3.2. Language and place\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4. Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. Children as ambiguous participants in language revitalisation \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.1. Introduction: the dubious child\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2. Children as children: tokens of growth and of a future for the community\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3. Children as pupils\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4. Bilingual education pupils as ‘new speakers’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4.1. New speakers and legitimate language on the Provençal linguistic market\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4.2. New speakers for academics: a descriptive category?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4.3. Legitimacy among bilingual school pupils in Provence\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4.4. Encountering the native speaker: reframing language into old vs. new provençal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5. Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11. Conclusion: wrestling with classifi cations in a world of signs \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReferences \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407018041687,"sku":"9781119243533","price":33.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/revitalising-language-in-provence-9781119243533","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}