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Revitalising Language in Provence: A Critical Approach 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.
* Presents a wealth of new research data relating to revitalising language movement
* Offers an innovative new way of problematizing language revitalisation
* Questions the very concept of language revitalisation and challenges the field's main tenets
* Reveals what language revitalisation movements really stand for, what they use language for, and who the people spearheading these movements are
Table des matières
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Researching language revitalisation from a critical sociolinguistic perspective
1.1. Saving authentic languages vs. inventing new ones
1.2. Language revitalisation
1.3. Language revitalisation in Academic Work
1.4. Revitalising Occitan in Southern France: Occitania and Provence
1.5. Positioning
1.6. Critical sociolinguistics
1.7. Volume outline
Revitalising
2. Language revitalisation: a genealogy
2.1. Introduction: investigating language revitalisation
2.2. The Precursors: antiquarians and French Revolutionaries
2.3. North American scholarship: anthropology and sociolinguistics
2.4. Descriptive linguistics and language endangerment
2.5. Language revitalisation and linguistics
2.6. Language documentation and description established
3. Defining language revitalisation
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Defi ning revitalisation
3.3. Establishing a discourse of diagnosis and remedy
3.4. Critical approaches to endangerment and revitalisation
3.5. Conclusion
4. Revitalisation as recategorisation
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Rethinking revitalisation as a social movement
4.3. Revitalisation as a conscious effort to implement social change
4.4. Revitalisation and culture change in later debates
4.5. The study of language revitalisation movements
4.5.1. Proposition 1: language revitalisation, as a social movement, is about groupness
4.5.2. Proposition 2: language revitalisation as the consequence of social contact
4.5.3. Proposition 3: language revitalisation is fundamentallya struggle over classifi cations
4.5.4. Language revitalisation is ultimately not about language or even about past linguistic hierarchies
4.6. Conclusion
Conflict in the Occitan South of France
5. Does context stink?
5.1. Introduction
5.2. The Predicament of contextualising: does context stink?
5.3. Language revitalisation in the South of France: who are we talking about?
5.3.1. Experts: legitimising knowledge and revitalisation
5.3.2. Language advocates: disseminating the revitalization narrative
5.3.3. Traditional and new speakers
5.4. Conclusion
6. What the Occitan Language movement is up against: the French Nationalist and Linguistic Project
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Narratives of Frenchness
6.3. Erasing linguistic Otherness in the Sixteenth century
6.4. Patois and the construction of citizenship
6.5. Dialectology and the linguistic making of France
6.6. The French nationalist project and the marginalisation of the South
6.7. Conclusion: a new world ready for language revivals to happen
7. Reviving Occitan
7.1. Introduction
7.2. The first 'Occitan' revivals?
7.3. The contemporary language movement in Southern France: from the Felibrige to the Institut d'Estudis Occitans
7.4. The primacy of place, or the identifi cation of language and territory
7.5. History: imagining the past and calling the future into being
7.6. Conclusion
8. Internal struggles
8.1. Introduction: language revitalisation as a terrain for language ideological debates
8.2. Nineteenth century linguistic ideological debates: who can speak on behalf of the South?
8.2.1. History as a shaping discipline
8.2.2. Early orthographic debates
8.2.3. Representing the South
A propos de l'auteur
James Costa is Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, France.
Résumé
Revitalising Language in Provence: A Critical Approach questions the concept of language revitalisation and challenges the field s main tenets through a detailed analysis Southern France s Provencal movement, one of Europe s longest standing language revitalisation projects.
