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Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Minority Languages in Europe: An Introduction to the Current Debate -- 2 When a Language is 'Just Symbolic': Reconsidering the Significance of Language to the Politics of Identity -- Part II Legal and Policy Frameworks -- 3 Devising an Adequate System of Minority Protection in the Area of Language Rights -- 4 Facilitating or Generating Linguistic Diversity: The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages -- 5 The Practitioner's Perspective: Minority Languages and Linguistic Minorities in the Work of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities -- Part III Case Studies -- 6 Ethnic Germans as a Language Minority in Central and Eastern Europe: Legislative and Policy Frameworks in Poland, Hungary and Romania -- 7 Baltic National Minorities in a Transitional Setting -- 8 Politics and Language Rights: A Case Study of Language Politics in Croatia -- 9 'Minor' Needs or The Ambiguous Power of Translation -- 10 On Policies and Prospects for British Sign Language -- 11 The Changing Status of Romani in Europe -- Part IV Conclusion -- 12 Language, Nationalism and Democracy in Europe -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Y.