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Publication details [#57605]

Vigers, Dick. 2013. Signs of absence: language and memory in the linguistic landscape of Brittany. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2013 (223) : 171–187.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

geolinguistics | language revival | language shift | route description | sign

Language as a subject

Breton | French

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper discusses how bold official Breton presence on road signs in Western Brittany -in marked contrast to otherwise suggested terminal language shift- is rationalized as the repair of authenticity, yet what constitutes authenticity in a nearly post-Breton language shift setting is disputed.