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Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe
Edited by Marco Tamburelli and Mauro Tosco
[Studies in World Language Problems 8] 2021
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1.What are contested languages and why should linguists care? 3
Section 1.The broader picture
Chapter 2.Contested languages and the denial of linguistic rights in the 21st century 21
Chapter 3.Democracy: A threat to language diversity? 41
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 59
Chapter 5.The cost of ignoring degrees of Abstand in defining a regional language: Evidence from South Tyrol 87
Chapter 6.Deconstructing the idea of language: The effects of the patoisation of Occitan in France 105
Chapter 7.Surveying the ethnolinguistic vitality of two regional collateral languages: The case of Kashubian and Piedmontese 125
Chapter 8.Contested orthographies: Taking a closer look at spontaneous writing in Piedmontese 143
Chapter 9.Revitalising contested languages: The case of Lombard 163
Section 3.Working with contestedness: experiences from the field
Chapter 10.Community-based language planning: Bringing Sicilian folktales back to life 185
Chapter 11.Teaching Piedmontese: A challenge? 199
Chapter 12.Publishing a grammar and literature anthology of a contested language: An experience of crowdfunding 209
Chapter 13.Which Sardinian for education? The chance of CLIL-based laboratories: A case study 221
Section 4.Beyond contested languages: When contestedness creeps in
Chapter 14.Citizenship and nationality: The situation of the users of revived Livonian in Latvia 237
Chapter 15.The language ideology of Esperanto: From the world language problem to balanced multilingualism 247
Index 269


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