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A Sharper View: Evaluating the Vitality of Official Language Minority Communities

Page 1 of 36

May 2006

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Community Morphology

• The Importance of Territory
• Rural/Urban Divide
• The Linguistic Landscape
• Networks and Common Interests
• Ethnicity, Immigration and Diversity

The Vitality of the Communities

• The Concept of Vitality

  • Individual or Collective?
  • A State and a Process
  • Ethnolinguistic, Linguistic or Community Vitality
• Demographic Dimension
• Social Dimension
• Political and Legal Dimension
• Cultural Dimension
• Economic Dimension
• Models of Community Vitality

Indicators of Vitality and Its Evaluation

• Evaluation
• Indicators
• Sets of Indicators Related to Linguistic Minorities
• Other Sets of Indicators

Empowering Official Language Minority Communities

• A Place to Stand
• Current Research Capabilities
• Approaches to Empowerment

Conclusion

Bibliography

• Works Relating to Linguistic Minorities
• Works on Evaluation of Vitality in Situations Comparable with the Official Language Minority Communities

Glossary

Appendix A: Chronological Table of Key Documents on Official Language Minority Communities

Appendix B: List of Canadian Research Centres and Institutes Studying OLMCs

1. Centres and Institutes
2. Chairs
3. Community Organizations
4. Government Research

List of Figures:

• Figure 1. Dimensions and Manifestations of Vitality
• Figure 2. Macroscopic Model of Determinants of Additive Bilingualism and Subtractive Bilingualism
• Figure 3. Intergroup Model of Ethnolinguistic Revitalization
• Figure 4. Environmental Model of Community Vitality

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