Mari C. Jones, Language obsolescence and revitalization: Linguistic change in two sociolinguistically contrasting Welsh communities. (Oxford studies in language contact.) Oxford: Clarendon; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 452.

Mari C. Jones, Language obsolescence and revitalization: Linguistic change in two sociolinguistically contrasting Welsh communities. (Oxford studies in language contact.) Oxford: Clarendon; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 452. Trosset, C. Volume 29 , 2000.
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The question of assimilation itself makes sense only in the context of a general acceptance of the idea that language is principally a matter of public policy, some- thing that pertains centrally to the political domain, and which rests on the as- sumption that the state deals with something resembling nations which define themselves at least in part in terms of language. Both of these are interesting ideas, and their role in Canada deserves to be discussed. Why do we so readily enter the terrain of language in order to discuss issues which might better be understood as political and economic conflicts? Why do we so readily assume that the state is the appropriate interlocutor, that public policy is the best or right way to undertake those discussions? Why do we assume that Canada is about nations at all? Several authors in this collection - Philippe Barbaud, Raymond Mougeon, J.K. Chambers, and Gary Caldwell in particular, in their discussions of the history of French- and English-speaking groups - point to the complex his- tory of language contact in Canada, and to the multiple ties that link Canadians to groups elsewhere. In some respects, one might argue that Canada is a good ex- ample of a postmodern state avant la lettre, in which people develop and exploit multiple identities. But public discourse has worked to suppress this dimension of language in Canada, and it seems that much of our intellectual life has been devoted to supporting that suppression

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