Family Language Policy: Maintaining an Endangered Language in the Home

Reviews of Family Language Policy: Maintaining an Endangered Language in the Home

"This brief but incisive and insightful study makes an important contribution to the emerging field of family language policy and to our understanding of the dynamics of language shift more generally."-Wilson McLeod, Professor of Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK"This book has much to teach those who hope to halt the shift process that threatens the survival of many small and especially indigenous languages around the world. Read this book to learn why the final page does not foresee a completely dark future for Gaelic in this family or predict general failure for efforts to reverse language shift."-Nancy Dorian, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Bryn Mawr College, USA