European Minority Languages and Ideologies of the Nation State: Selected Sources with Annotations

Abstract

This bibliography is a collection of texts pertaining to minoritized language communities in Europe and the tools that they use to revitalize their respective languages. Specifically, it highlights the use of the “one nation, one language” ideology associated with the modern nation state to promote minority languages. Strategies inspired by this ideology include the promotion of nationalism (an ideology prioritizing one’s own cultural, historical, linguistic, ethnic, and/or other group, aka “nation”), territoriality (the association of a nation, language, or other entity with a specific geographical area), and legibility (the standardization or homogenization of an object or process to make it easier to manipulate and control). This bibliography seeks to unite texts from linguistics, political science, area studies, geography, and other fields that give insight into the rise of the nation state, a global phenomenon, and its impact on the approaches used in language revitalization movements on a local scale.