@article{edwards_language_2007,
	title = {Language {Revitalization} and its {Discontents}: {An} essay and review of {Saving} languages: {An} introduction to language revitalization},
	volume = {10},
	issn = {1481-868X},
	url = {http://ojs.vre.upei.ca/index.php/cjalupei/article/view/260},
	abstract = {Endangered languages are of obvious interest to linguists, and it is remarkable that recent levels of concern have shown that many of them are more or less committed to doing something to stemlinguistic decline. This is a change from earlier hands-off postures that traditionally held it to be neither appropriate nor feasible to intervene in the social life of language; the work of academies, for example, was regularly interpreted as psychologically understandable but lin- guistically naïve. The older view remains, however, more correct than many modern commentatorswould have us believe. This is because the newer “eco- logical” stance generally persists in discussing language as if it were almost a freestanding matter that could and would respond to focused intervention. This is plainly not the case. Wholesale social reworking is too revolutionary formodern ecolinguists; rather, only some selected adjustments are wanted— but this has generally proved unworkable. To intervene on behalf of a threat- ened minority language, for instance, while leaving intact all the other aspects of social evolution that link the community in desired and desirable ways with the wider world, has generally resulted in failure},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics (CJAL)/Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée (RCLA)},
	author = {Edwards, John},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {101--120},
}

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