Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Coding -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Ethnocultural Minorities in Europe: The Political Context -- Chapter 3: Multilingualism as Premise of Cultural Diversity: Theories on Language, Thought and Culture from the Enlightenment to the Present -- Chapter 4: Gaelic in Scotland -- Chapter 5: Sorbian in Lusatia -- Chapter 6: Language Metaphysics on the Ground: Gaelic and Sorbian in Relation to Thought, Culture and Self -- Chapter 7: Narratives of Continuity: Language as a Unifier -- Chapter 8: The (Re)Production of Difference: Language as Source of Social Boundaries -- Chapter 9: Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix A: Scotland and Ireland from a Gaelic perspective -- Appendix B: Shares of Gaelic speakers in local populations (parish-level) in 2001 -- Appendix C: Slavic territories to the west of the River Oder in the 10th and 11th centuries -- Appendix D: Areas with significant numbers of Sorbian/Wendish speakers (1999) -- Appendix E: Gaelic-related Questionnaire (English version) -- Appendix F: Sorbian-related Questionnaire (German version) -- Index