2 Sowing the Seeds at Semente: Urban Breathing Spaces and New Speaker Agency

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Preface and Acknowledgements xiii
5. Introduction: Sustaining Minoritised Languages in Europe: An Agentive Perspective on Social Actors and Language Revitalisation 1
6. Part 1: Building Agency
7. 1 Tús Maith: Empowering Children’s Agentive Role in Language Revitalisation 25
8. 2 Sowing the Seeds at Semente: Urban Breathing Spaces and New Speaker Agency 43
9. 3 The Dynamics of a Triangle of Agency: Sorbian Language Policy 62
10. Commentary: Language Confl ict and the Contextual Nature of Agency 84
11. Part 2: Rethinking Possibilities in Agency
12. 4 I Was There: Agency, Authority and Morality Among the Griko Linguistic Minority of Southern Italy (Apulia) 93
13. 5 Which North Frisian Should Be Maintained? Exploring Language Attitudes and Agency of Speakers and Non-Speakers 115
14. 6 Reconsidering Agency in 21st-Century Language Revitalisation: Insight from the Occitan Context 138
15. Commentary: Rethinking Agency 162
16. Conclusion: Final Thoughts on Agency and Affects 167
17. Index 173