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11 JEMIE 1 (2012)

handle is hein.journals/jemie2012 and id is 1 raw text is: S. Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe. aS JEM IE Vol ll, Nol, 2012,1-16 Journalhn Ehnpotics and Mlzority Iss Copyright © ECMI 24 April 2012 This article is located at: http://www.ecmi.de/fileadmin/downloads/publications/JEMIE/2012/SaarekiviMarten.pdf Introduction to the Special Issue: Political and Economic Obstacles of Minority Language Maintenance Janne Saarikivi and Heiko F. Marten* University ofHelsinki and Tallinn University Over the past decades, problems related to linguistic minorities and their well-being, as well as to minority languages and their maintenance, have developed as an independent branch of minority studies. Studies of language in society and sociolinguistics, strategies of minority language survival and the empowerment of their speakers have produced a considerable output of case studies and theoretical writings (to mention some of the most notable writings: Fishman, 1991; Romaine, 1995; Crystal, 2000; Nettle and Romaine, 2000; Skutnabb-Kangas, 2000; Extra and Gorter, 2001; Hale and Hinton, 2001; Harrisson, 2007; Arzoz, 2008; Edwards, 2010; May, 2012). In this multifaceted field of investigation, language use, language practices, language policies and language politics represent interrelated aspects of social and linguistic relations that cannot be meaningfully addressed from a point of view of one scientific discipline only. This is specially the case when one wants to understand processes of language loss and maintenance, or the revitalization and empowerment of a language community. Such processes are linguistic expressions of complex social seffings, and reflect group and individual identities that in turn express changing systems of collective values, human networks, fashions and social practices. The interrelationship between political and economic participation and rights to land and other resources with ethnic and linguistic maintenance -the theme uniting the articles of this volume -is also a very complex one and reflected in a variety of Correspondence details: Janne Saarikivi. Email: jsaariki@mappi.helsinki.fi. Heiko F. Marten. Email: heiko.marten@tlu.ee.

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