Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction
4. Chapter 1. What are contested languages and why should linguists care? 3
5. Section 1. The broader picture
6. Chapter 2. Contested languages and the denial of linguistic rights in the 21st century 21
7. Chapter 3. Democracy 41
8. Section 2. Identifying and perceiving contested languages
9. Chapter 4. Mixing methods in linguistic classification 59
10. Chapter 5. The cost of ignoring degrees of Abstand in defining a regional language 87
11. Chapter 6. Deconstructing the idea of language 105
12. Chapter 7. Surveying the ethnolinguistic vitality of two contested languages 125
13. Chapter 8. Contested orthographies 143
14. Chapter 9. Revitalising contested languages 163
15. Section 3. Working with contestedness
16. Chapter 10. Community-based language planning 185
17. Chapter 11. Teaching Piedmontese 199
18. Chapter 12. Publishing a grammar and literature anthology of a contested language 209
19. Chapter 13. Which Sardinian for education? 221
20. Section 4. Beyond contested languages
21. Chapter 14. Citizenship and nationality 237
22. Chapter 15. The language ideology of Esperanto 247
23. Index 269