The State of Minority Languages

The state of minority languages; introductory remarks; Forging identities in the preschool: competing discourses and their relationship to research; The powers of nationalism: the Canadian Referendum of 1992; Dimensions of minority language survival/non-survival: intergroup cognitions and communication climates; Turkish and Arabic proficiency in a first and second language environment; Minority and majority language use in the family among four immigrant groups in the Nordic Region; Language-related criteria as determinants of ethnicity: goals and results of a feasibility study in the Netherlands; Language policy and regional characteristics of minority language communities; Indigenous language loss in Mexico: the process of language displacement in verbal interaction; Parent attitudes to children's LI maintenance: a cross-sectional study of immigrant groups in the Nordic countries; Reciprocity agreements as a language planning instrument for the maintenance of minority languages; The use of Finnish and Swedish in two generations of Sweden Finns; American Indian languages and United States language policy; Ecolinguistic biographies: social networks in a nursery school; Attitudes and bilingual behaviour in the Thorne Valley; Frisian diminutive formation among Frisian and Dutch primary school children; Good conferences in a wicked world: on some worrisome problems in the study of language maintenance and language shift