Alexandre Duchêne is Professor in Sociology of Language and Multilingualism at the University of Teacher Education, Fribourg, Switzerland.Monica Heller is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Canada.

To sum up, the editors have assembled a splendid collection of state-of-theart essays on language endangerment discourses written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and covering a wide range of languages ... The best of the essays are truly trailblazing. Linguistic anthropologists, sociolinguists, applied linguists, discourse analysts, and anyone else interested in language ideologies and language endangerment issues would do well to read this volume.

• 1. Discourses of endangerment: Sociolinguistics, globalization and social order, Monica Heller and Alexandre Duchêne2. Defending diversity: Staking out a common global interest?, Shaylih Muehlmann3. Indigenous language endangerment and the unfinished business of nation states, Donna Patrick4. Discourses of endangerment: Contexts and consequences of essentializing discourses, Alexandra Jaffe5. Who wants to save 'le patois d'Évolène?, Raphaël Maître and Marinette Matthey6. Français, acadien, acadjonne: Competing discourses on language preservation along the shores of the Baie Sainte-Marie, Annette Boudreau and Lise Dubois7. The future of Catalan: Language endangerment and nationalist discourses in Catalonia, Joan Pujolar8. Language endangerment, war and peace in Ireland and Northern Ireland, Tony Crowley9. Voices of endangerment: A language ideological debate on the Swedish language, Tommaso M.Milani10. 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 Moïse12. Embracing diversity for the sake of unity: Linguistic hegemony and the pursuit of total Spanish, José del Valle13. Language endangerment and verbal hygiene: History, morality and politics, Deborah CameronIndex

Alexandre Duchêne is Professor in Sociology of Language and Multilingualism at the University of Teacher Education, Fribourg, Switzerland.Monica Heller is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Canada.

To sum up, the editors have assembled a splendid collection of state-of-theart essays on language endangerment discourses written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and covering a wide range of languages ... The best of the essays are truly trailblazing. Linguistic anthropologists, sociolinguists, applied linguists, discourse analysts, and anyone else interested in language ideologies and language endangerment issues would do well to read this volume.

• 1. Discourses of endangerment: Sociolinguistics, globalization and social order, Monica Heller and Alexandre Duchêne2. Defending diversity: Staking out a common global interest?, Shaylih Muehlmann3. Indigenous language endangerment and the unfinished business of nation states, Donna Patrick4. Discourses of endangerment: Contexts and consequences of essentializing discourses, Alexandra Jaffe5. Who wants to save 'le patois d'Évolène?, Raphaël Maître and Marinette Matthey6. Français, acadien, acadjonne: Competing discourses on language preservation along the shores of the Baie Sainte-Marie, Annette Boudreau and Lise Dubois7. The future of Catalan: Language endangerment and nationalist discourses in Catalonia, Joan Pujolar8. Language endangerment, war and peace in Ireland and Northern Ireland, Tony Crowley9. Voices of endangerment: A language ideological debate on the Swedish language, Tommaso M.Milani10. 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 Moïse12. Embracing diversity for the sake of unity: Linguistic hegemony and the pursuit of total Spanish, José del Valle13. Language endangerment and verbal hygiene: History, morality and politics, Deborah CameronIndex

Alexandre Duchêne is Professor in Sociology of Language and Multilingualism at the University of Teacher Education, Fribourg, Switzerland.Monica Heller is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Canada.

To sum up, the editors have assembled a splendid collection of state-of-theart essays on language endangerment discourses written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and covering a wide range of languages ... The best of the essays are truly trailblazing. Linguistic anthropologists, sociolinguists, applied linguists, discourse analysts, and anyone else interested in language ideologies and language endangerment issues would do well to read this volume.

• 1. Discourses of endangerment: Sociolinguistics, globalization and social order, Monica Heller and Alexandre Duchêne2. Defending diversity: Staking out a common global interest?, Shaylih Muehlmann3. Indigenous language endangerment and the unfinished business of nation states, Donna Patrick4. Discourses of endangerment: Contexts and consequences of essentializing discourses, Alexandra Jaffe5. Who wants to save 'le patois d'Évolène?, Raphaël Maître and Marinette Matthey6. Français, acadien, acadjonne: Competing discourses on language preservation along the shores of the Baie Sainte-Marie, Annette Boudreau and Lise Dubois7. The future of Catalan: Language endangerment and nationalist discourses in Catalonia, Joan Pujolar8. Language endangerment, war and peace in Ireland and Northern Ireland, Tony Crowley9. Voices of endangerment: A language ideological debate on the Swedish language, Tommaso M.Milani10. 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 Moïse12. Embracing diversity for the sake of unity: Linguistic hegemony and the pursuit of total Spanish, José del Valle13. Language endangerment and verbal hygiene: History, morality and politics, Deborah CameronIndex