This Special Issue of the Journal of French Language Studies celebrates a recent surge in enthusiasm for sociolinguistic studies involving the regional languages of France. Taking our cue from the contributions to the volume, which we introduce here, we argue that a changing twenty-first century landscape offers an exciting new agenda for these regional languages (and minority languages more widely), and set out what we see as six key directions for contemporary research.

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超越陈旧：二十一世纪的区域语言研究议程

本期特刊法语研究杂志庆祝最近对涉及法国地区语言的社会语言学研究的热情高涨。从我们在这里介绍的对本书的贡献中得到启发，我们认为不断变化的 21 世纪景观为这些区域语言（以及更广泛的少数民族语言）提供了一个令人兴奋的新议程，并列出了我们认为的六种语言当代研究的关键方向。