Discourses of Endangerment

Alexandre Duchene is Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Monica Heller is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Canada.

• Preface, Sally Johnson (University of Leeds, UK); 1. Endangered discourses, Alexandre Duchene (Universitat Basel, Switzerland) and Monica Heller (University of Toronto, Canada); 2. Defending diversity, Shaylih Muehlmann (University of Toronto, Canada); 3. Indigenous language survival in Canada, Donna Patrick (Carleton University, Canada); 4. Who wants to save the Patois d'Evolene?, Marinette Matthey (University de Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Raphael Maitre (University de Neuchatel, Switzerland); 5. Linguistics, civil society and discourses of endangerment, Alexandra Jaffe (California State University, USA); 6. Discourses on language in the Ukraine, Patrick Seriot (Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland); 7. Language ideological debates in Sweden, Tommasso Milani (Stockholm University, Denmark); 8. Language endangerment, war and peace in Northern Ireland, Tony Crowley (Manchester University, UK); 9. The future of Catalan, Joan Pujolar (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain); 10. Competing discourses of language preservation along the Baie Sainte-Marie, Annette Boudreau and Lise Dubois (Universite de Moncton, Canada); 11. France and the preservation of French, Claudine Moise (Universite d'Avingnon et de Pays Vaucluse, France); 12. Defending English in an English-dominant world, Ron Schmidt (California State University, USA); 13. Language endangerment and verbal hygiene, Deborah Cameron (Oxford University, UK).

To sum up, the editors have assembled a splendid collection of state-of-theart essays on language endangerment discourses written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and covering a wide range of languages ... The best of the essays are truly trailblazing. Linguistic anthropologists, sociolinguists, applied linguists, discourse analysts, and anyone else interested in language ideologies and language endangerment issues would do well to read this volume.