Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Social space and place: models of identity -- Chapter 3. Language shift and diglossia: ideology, history and contemporary practice -- Chapter 4. Language Activism Part I -- Chapter 5. Language Activism Part 2 -- Chapter 6. Language learning: its social evaluation and meaning -- Chapter 7. Cracks in the public performance of Corsican literacy: the Second Annual Corsican Spelling Contest -- Chapter 8. Moving language off center stage: media and performance -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Name index -- Subject index -- Backmatter