A view from the periphery

Reflexivity and small languages

Transgression, small languages and changing boundaries

Small languages in new circumstances?

Expanding possibilities for commodification

Conventional and transactional authenticities in small-culture tourism

Sociolinguistics from the Periphery

This leading team of scholars presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; and altered imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users. The authors refer to this network of interlinked changes as the new conditions surrounding small languages (Sámi, Corsican, Irish and Welsh) in peripheral sites. Starting from the conviction that peripheral sites can and should inform the sociolinguistics of globalisation, the book explores how new modes of reflexivity, more transactional frames for authenticity, commodification of peripheral resources, and boundary-transgression with hu…