Book review: Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation

The anthology Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation is from the Palgrave series on Language and Globalization. This volume, edited by Huw Lewis and Wilson McLeod, offers a comprehensive overview of the contemporary situation of regional and minority language (RML) revitalisation. It is separated into four thematic parts, each of which is comprised of three chapters, the third always being an editors’ summary. In the editors’ introduction, the volume is situated into the broader discourse of minority languages and language revitalisation. This involves stating that while the challenges faced by RMLs are global, this anthology focuses predominately on efforts in industrialised, Westernised contexts, with an Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe