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 in many indigenous minority-language situations traditional native speaker
communities are in decline, new speakers are emerging in the context of revitalization …

After a broad overview of the history and the areas of focus of research on language conflict,
this article pays particular attention to a number of selected features of societal language …

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 …

This article looks at the “new speaker” concept and the questions it raises in terms of
legitimacy from the point of view of several types of social actors, namely language …

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 …

The increase in Basque speakers in the last 30 years has been due in large part to 'new
speakers' or euskaldunberri, a term that will be used here to refer to those who have learned …

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

Adolescents' attitudes towards standard Galician, non-standard Galician and Spanish are
examined in this study using a matched-guise test. Results show that adolescents perceive …

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 …