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During Germany's occupation of France in WWII, French regional languages became a way for people to assert their local identities. This book offers a detailed historical sociolinguistic analysis of the various language policies applied in France's regions (Brittany, Southern France, Corsica and Alsace) before, during and after WWII.

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In this rich and ambitious book ... Aviv Amit sets out to compare the wartime sociolinguistic trajectories of four of France's minority-language communities, namely Breton, Occitan, Corsican and Alsatian. ... this book certainly makes recommended reading for anyone interested in French language policy or French national minorities. (Geoffrey Roger, Language Policy, Vol. 15, 2016)

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Aviv Amit is a Teaching Fellow at the Department of French Studies in Tel Aviv University, Israel. He has published numerous articles and a book in the area of sociolinguistics, language policy and language contacts.

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