Language revitalization as community building in Occitania: Language, economics and the politics of transmission

Part of the work at Lacito lies at the crossroad between linguistic anthropology and linguistics, and focuses in particular on understanding what linguistic and cultural diversity might mean to humans in the 21st century. Language endangerment and language revitalisation are in a sense part of the problematisation of diversity, and although revitalisation movements can be said to have their roots in 19th c. Romantic nationalist movements, an ever increasing number of people worldwide are show..