Revitalising Language in Provence: A Critical Approach questions the concept of language revitalization and challenges the field’s main tenets through a detailed analysis Southern France’s Provençal movement, one of Europe’s longest standing language revitalisation projects.

• Presents a wealth of new research data relating to revitalising language movement
• Offers an innovative new way of problematizing language revitalisation
• Questions the very concept of language revitalisation and challenges the field’s main tenets
• Reveals what language revitalisation movements really stand for, what they use language for, and who the people spearheading these movements are

James Costa is Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, France.