Chapter 2 When a Language is ‘Just Symbolic’: Reconsidering the Significance of Language to the Politics of Identity

Chapter 3 Devising an Adequate System of Minority Protection in the Area of Language Rights

Chapter 4 Facilitating or Generating Linguistic Diversity: The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

Chapter 5 The Practitioner’s Perspective: Minority Languages and Linguistic Minorities in the Work of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities

Chapter 6 Ethnic Germans as a Language Minority in Central and Eastern Europe: Legislative and Policy Frameworks in Poland, Hungary and Romania

Chapter 7 Baltic National Minorities in a Transitional Setting

Chapter 8 Politics and Language Rights: A Case Study of Language Politics in Croatia

Chapter 9 ‘Minor’ Needs or The Ambiguous Power of Translation

Chapter 10 On Policies and Prospects for British Sign Language

Chapter 11 The Changing Status of Romani in Europe

Chapter 12 Language, Nationalism and Democracy in Europe