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This analysis of language policy on Corsica provides the first study of the three levels of language policy existing on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. It focuses on the key participants - the State, the language activists and the islanders - in the language debate that has taken place across the island since its purchase by France. This book is informed by recent work on language planning, both theoretical and relating to specific case studies. At the same time, it engages with trends in sociolinguistics over the past decades, which have included language planning in their investigations of languages in contact, language obsolescence and language death. A central premise of this book is that the three discrete categories of participants in the language debate are closely interrelated and that the status and position of Corsican in relation to French cannot be understood without a thorough exploration of these three strands. This volume will appeal to researchers and students in French Studies, sociolinguistics, and especially language policy.

Introduction / Robert Blackwood and Deirdre A. Dunlevy -- Multilingual Inequality in Public Spaces: Towards an Inclusive Model of Linguistic Landscapes / Durk Gorter -- Demarcating the Space for Multilingualism: On the Workings of Ethnic Interests in a Civic Nation / Marián Sloboda -- Empowering Multilingualism? Provisions for Place-Names in Northern Ireland and the Political and Legislative Context / Mícheál B. Ó Mainnín -- The Transformative Power of Linguistic Mobility: Evidence from Italian Borderscapes / Stefania Tufi -- Invisible Presence? Polish in Norwegian Public Spaces / Toril Opsahl -- Place-Names and the Complexity of Language Recognition in Northern Ireland / Deirdre A. Dunlevy -- Post-Colonial Re-Memorization in the Public Space: A Patrice Lumumba Square in Brussels / Luk Van Mensel -- Linguistic Landscape Activism as a Means of Community Empowerment: Direct Action Ai'Ta and Breton in France / Robert Blackwood -- Multilingualism in the Model Multicultural City: The Influence of Authors in Leicester's Golden Mile / Michelle A. Harrison -- Empowering Dialect Speakers in Formal Education, The Case of the Greek Cypriot Dialect in Preschool Education in Cyprus / Andry Sophocleous -- Conclusion / Robert Blackwood and Deirdre A. Dunlevy.