Amit's book certainly makes a vital contribution to the scholarly field of French language policy, French history, and national minorities through a historical-sociolinguistic lens. Graduate students and scholars working in these areas will find the historical-sociolinguistic trajectories of the various language policies applied in France's regions stimulating and thought-provoking. (Elisabeth Barakos, Journal of Language and Politics, Vol. 18 (3), 2019)
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)
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.