Contested Languages

The hidden multilingualism of Europe

Editors

Marco Tamburelli | Bangor University

Mauro Tosco | University of Turin

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This is the first volume entirely dedicated to contested languages. While generally listed in international language atlases, contested languages usually fall through the cracks of research: excluded from the literature on minority languages and treated as mere ensembles of geographically defined varieties by traditional dialectology. This volume investigates the nature of contested languages, the role language ideologies play in the perception of these languages, the contribution of academic discourse to the formation and perpetuation of language contestedness, and the damage contestedness causes to linguistic communities and ultimately to linguistic diversity. Various situations and degrees of language contestedness are presented and analysed, along with theoretical considerations, exploring potential roads to recognition and issues in language planning that arise from language contestedness. Addressing the “language vs dialect” question head on, the volume opens up new perspectives that are relevant to all students and researchers interested in the maintenance of linguistic diversity.

[Studies in World Language Problems, 8] 2021. vi, 271 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/wlp.8

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. What are contested languages and why should linguists care?

Marco Tamburelli and Mauro Tosco | pp. 3–18

Section 1. The broader picture

Chapter 2. Contested languages and the denial of linguistic rights in the 21st century

Marco Tamburelli | pp. 21–40

Chapter 3. Democracy: A threat to language diversity?

Mauro Tosco | pp. 41–56

Section 2. Identifying and perceiving contested languages

Chapter 4. Mixing methods in linguistic classification: A hidden agenda against multilingualism? The contestedness of Gallo-“Italic” languages within the Romance family

Lissander Brasca | pp. 59–86

Chapter 5. The cost of ignoring degrees of Abstand in defining a regional language: Evidence from South Tyrol

Mara Maya Victoria Leonardi and Marco Tamburelli | pp. 87–104

Chapter 6. Deconstructing the idea of language: The effects of the patoisation of Occitan in France

Aurélie Joubert | pp. 105–124

Chapter 7. Surveying the ethnolinguistic vitality of two contested languages: The case of Kashubian and Piedmontese

Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska and Claudia Soria | pp. 125–142

Chapter 8. Contested orthographies: Taking a closer look at spontaneous writing in Piedmontese

Emanuele Miola | pp. 143–162

Chapter 9. Revitalising contested languages: The case of Lombard

Paolo Coluzzi, Lissander Brasca and Simona Scuri | pp. 163–182

Section 3. Working with contestedness: Experiences from the field

Chapter 10. Community-based language planning: Bringing Sicilian folktales back to life

Andrea Musumeci | pp. 185–198

Chapter 11. Teaching Piedmontese: A challenge?

Nicola Duberti and Mauro Tosco | pp. 199–208

Chapter 12. Publishing a grammar and literature anthology of a contested language: An experience of crowdfunding

Andrea Francesco Daniele Di Stefano | pp. 209–220

Chapter 13. Which Sardinian for education? The chance of CLIL-based laboratories: A case study

Federico Gobbo and Laura Vardeu | pp. 221–234

Section 4. Beyond contested languages: When contestedness creeps in

Chapter 14. Citizenship and nationality: The situation of the users of revived Livonian in Latvia

Christopher Moseley | pp. 237–246

Chapter 15. The language ideology of Esperanto: From the world language problem to balanced multilingualism

Federico Gobbo | pp. 247–268

Index | pp. 269–271

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