1. Discourses of endangerment: Sociolinguistics, globalization and social order, Monica Heller and Alexandre Duchêne
2. Defending diversity: Staking out a common global interest?, Shaylih Muehlmann
3. Indigenous language endangerment and the unfinished business of nation states, Donna Patrick
4. Discourses of endangerment: Contexts and consequences of essentializing discourses, Alexandra Jaffe
5. Who wants to save 'le patois d'Évolène?, Raphaël Maître and Marinette Matthey
6. Français, acadien, acadjonne: Competing discourses on language preservation along the shores of the Baie Sainte-Marie, Annette Boudreau and Lise Dubois
7. The future of Catalan: Language endangerment and nationalist discourses in Catalonia, Joan Pujolar
8. Language endangerment, war and peace in Ireland and Northern Ireland, Tony Crowley
9. Voices of endangerment: A language ideological debate on the Swedish language, Tommaso M.Milani
10. Defending English in an English-dominant world: The Ideology of the 'Official English' movement in the United States, Ronald Schmidt, Sr.
11. Protecting French: The view from France, Claudine Moïse
12. Embracing diversity for the sake of unity: Linguistic hegemony and the pursuit of total Spanish, José del Valle
13. Language endangerment and verbal hygiene: History, morality and politics, Deborah Cameron
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