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This book deals with the tension between a strategy of language maintenance (protecting and reinforcing the language where it is still spoken by community members) and a strategy of language revitalization (opening up access to the language to all interested people and encouraging new domains of its use). The case study presented concerns a grammar school in Upper Lusatia, which hosts the coexistence of a community of Upper Sorbian-speakers and a group of German native speakers who are learning Upper Sorbian at school. The tensions between these two groups studying at the same school are presented in this book against the background of various language strategies, practices and ideologies. The conflict of interests between the "traditional" community which perceives itself as the "guardians" of the minority language and its potential new speakers is played off on different levels by policy-makers and may be read through different levels of language policy and planning

Preliminary Material /P. Limb , N. Etherington and P. Midgley -- Indigenous Southern Africans And Colonialism: Introduction /Norman Etherington -- Reactions To Colonialism In Southern Africa: Some Historiographical Reflections /Chris Saunders -- Fenders Of Space: Kgatla Territorial Expansion Under Boer And British Rule, 1840–1920 /Fred Morton -- Intermediaries Of Class, Nation, And Gender In The African Response To Colonialism In South Africa, 1890s–1920s /Peter Limb -- Pastoral Modernity, Territoriality And Colonial Transformations In Central Namibia, 1860s–1904 /Dag Henrichsen -- Social And Political Responses To Colonialism On The Margins: Community, Chieftaincy And Ethnicity In Bulilima-Mangwe, Zimbabwe, 1890–1930 /Enocent Msindo -- Conflict And Negotiation Along The Lower Vaal River: Correspondence From The Tswana-Language Newspaper Mokaeri Oa Becuana /Stephen C. Volz and Part T. Mgadla -- Renaissance Men: Ntsikana, A. C. Jordan, S. E. K. Mqhayi And South Africa's Cultural Awakening /Peter Midgley -- African Intellectual And Literary Responses To Colonial Modernity In South Africa /Ntongela Masilela -- \'Then Came The Whiteman\': An African Poet And Polemicist On The Fateful Encounter /Grant Christison -- World Visions: 'Native Missionaries,' Mission Networks And Critiques Of Colonialism In Nineteenth-Century South Africa And Canada /Tolly Bradford -- Bibliography /P. Limb , N. Etherington and P. Midgley -- Index /P. Limb , N. Etherington and P. Midgley.