Policy and Planning for Endangered Languages

Preface Mari C. Jones; 1. Leveraging language policy to effect change in the Arctic Lenore A. Grenoble; 2. Maintaining and revitalising the indigenous endangered languages of Borneo: comparing 'top-down' and community-based policy initiatives and strategies James McLellan and Gary Jones; 3. Language ideologies, practices and policies in Kanaky/New Caledonia Julia Sallabank; 4. Immersion education and the revitalisation of Breton and Gaelic as community languages Fabienne Goalalbre; 5. Asset, affiliation, anxiety? Exploring student perspectives on Welsh-medium study at post-16 Further Education Colleges Andrew James Davies and Prysor Mason Davies; 6. From policies to practice: the complex role of social mediators in Naayeri public education (Nayarit, Mexico) Margarita Valdovinos; 7. Transitional turtle soup: reconceptualising Mikasuki language acquisition planning Arieh Sherris and Jill Robbins; 8. Value, status, language policy and the language plan Rawinia Higgins and Poia Rewi; 9. Assessing the effect of official recognition on the vitality of endangered languages: a case study from Italy Claudia Soria; 10. Young Kashubs and language policy: between officialisation and community Nicole Dolowy-Rybinska; 11. Confrontation and language policy: non-militant perspectives on conflicting revitalisation strategies in Bearn, France Damien Mooney; 12. Occitan: a language that cannot stop dying Aurelie Joubert; 13. 'To be a good westerner, you need to know where you come from': challenges facing language revitalisation in central Africa Rebecca Mitchell; 14. Rediscovering history and the Cornish revival: changing attitudes to obtain language policies Michael Tressider.