• 1. Introduction: Theoretical Discussion and Research Focus ; 2. On the Politics of Change ; 3. On Sociolinguistic Change ; 4. Performance and Ethnohistory ; 5. The Contextualization of Terminal-Speaker Discourse and the Production of an Across the Border Voice: Beyond Grammar ; 6. The Coding of Linguistic Ideology and Arvanitika Linguistic Ideology ; 7. Concluding Remarks on Ideology and Shift: Language Ideology as a Discursive and Reconstructible Phenomenon

... valuable and sophisticated linguistic-anthropological study ... Tsitsipis's discussions are exceptionally rich theoretically, drawing expertly and innovatively on a wide range of influences to try to develop a precise language for the interpretation of the complex shifting frames of Arvanitika speech. His treatment of contradiction and complexity in Arvanitika discourse, and the role of this in the language shift, is masterful. I would strongly recommend this book as an exemplary treatment of the kinds of contradictions often found in communities undergoing language shift, in which speakers can simultaneously endorse and undermine a threatened language ... the work is a masterful presentation of the kinds of analytic tools that can help us to undertake the task of "ideological clarification".

• 1. Introduction: Theoretical Discussion and Research Focus ; 2. On the Politics of Change ; 3. On Sociolinguistic Change ; 4. Performance and Ethnohistory ; 5. The Contextualization of Terminal-Speaker Discourse and the Production of an Across the Border Voice: Beyond Grammar ; 6. The Coding of Linguistic Ideology and Arvanitika Linguistic Ideology ; 7. Concluding Remarks on Ideology and Shift: Language Ideology as a Discursive and Reconstructible Phenomenon

... valuable and sophisticated linguistic-anthropological study ... Tsitsipis's discussions are exceptionally rich theoretically, drawing expertly and innovatively on a wide range of influences to try to develop a precise language for the interpretation of the complex shifting frames of Arvanitika speech. His treatment of contradiction and complexity in Arvanitika discourse, and the role of this in the language shift, is masterful. I would strongly recommend this book as an exemplary treatment of the kinds of contradictions often found in communities undergoing language shift, in which speakers can simultaneously endorse and undermine a threatened language ... the work is a masterful presentation of the kinds of analytic tools that can help us to undertake the task of "ideological clarification".

• 1. Introduction: Theoretical Discussion and Research Focus ; 2. On the Politics of Change ; 3. On Sociolinguistic Change ; 4. Performance and Ethnohistory ; 5. The Contextualization of Terminal-Speaker Discourse and the Production of an Across the Border Voice: Beyond Grammar ; 6. The Coding of Linguistic Ideology and Arvanitika Linguistic Ideology ; 7. Concluding Remarks on Ideology and Shift: Language Ideology as a Discursive and Reconstructible Phenomenon

... valuable and sophisticated linguistic-anthropological study ... Tsitsipis's discussions are exceptionally rich theoretically, drawing expertly and innovatively on a wide range of influences to try to develop a precise language for the interpretation of the complex shifting frames of Arvanitika speech. His treatment of contradiction and complexity in Arvanitika discourse, and the role of this in the language shift, is masterful. I would strongly recommend this book as an exemplary treatment of the kinds of contradictions often found in communities undergoing language shift, in which speakers can simultaneously endorse and undermine a threatened language ... the work is a masterful presentation of the kinds of analytic tools that can help us to undertake the task of "ideological clarification".