Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic
Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political …

In this special issue we examine and reflect upon the emergence of “new speakers” in the
context of some of Europe's minority languages. The “new speaker” label is used here to …

While the field of variationist sociolinguistics has advanced rapidly since Labov (1966), it
remains the case that a socially informed theory of language change continues to be …

While traditional Irish-speaking communities continue to decline, the number of second-
language speakers outside of the Gaeltacht has increased. Of the more than one and half …

This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children's needs and
interests above the individual languages involved. It advocates flexible multilingual …

Based on original and long-term research in two ideologically divergent Native American
linguistic communities, I want to demonstrate the surprising persistence of Indigenous …

New speakers are an increasingly important aspect of the revitalization of minority
languages since, in some cases, they can make up the majority of the language community …

In this article we use Moscovici's (1976) notion of active minorities as a framework to explain
the linguistic practices and motivations behind linguistic change amongst new speakers of …

This book addresses a crucial, yet often overlooked dimension of minority language
standardisation, namely, how social actors engage with, support, alter, resist and even reject …

The Flipside, a website which playfully addresses life as a deaf person generally, and in the
US specifically, in September 2017 publishes a video. We see a deaf person spotting …