This paper outlines a new model of language revitalisation that understands language to be a characteristic of a nexus of social activities rather than an independent object. Language use is one of an overall set of factors contributing to the wellbeing of a particular community. Our model treats language as one node (or a cluster of nodes) in a…

Discusses intergroup relations, focusing on three issues: the social psychology of intergroup relations; the value of a cross-cultural perspective; and the contributions of this issue of the "Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development." (SED)

Addresses the issue of how ethnic groups cognitively represent some of the societal forces impinging upon them and relevant outgroups. The concept of vitality was used to measure Greek- and Anglo-Australians' construals of the sociostructural positions of their own group and of the other group. (SED)