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 …

Language is one of the key elements in the construction of human groups. All children are
socialized into their respective language groups, and adults, striving to maintain …

Abstract This chapter traces Family Language Policy (FLP) research from its origins in
sociolinguistic approaches to child bilingualism and details how examining language input …

In Spain, more than 40% of the population lives in officially bilingual regions in which the
minority language is used as a means of instruction at school and university. In addition, the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The emergence of Indigenous language revitalization seeks to address historical
domination over Indigenous peoples and to recover the loss of ancestral languages as …

This multiple case study focuses on second language speakers of Finnish and their lived
experience of everyday language use in Finland. The participants are late multilinguals who …

This dissertation focuses on the development of the agency and professional Finnish
language skills of international nursing students studying in an English-medium degree …