Papers on the situation of linguistic minorities in Western Europe and Canada include: "Linguistic Minorities: West European and Canadian Perspectives" (Colin H. Williams); "Geographical Aspects of Minority Language Situations in Italy" (Paul White); "Defining the Gaeltacht: Dilemmas in Irish Language Planning" (Reg Hindley); "The Geolinguistics of Breton" (Humphrey Lloyd Humphreys); "Language-Retreat and Regeneration in the Present-Day Scottish Gaidhealtachd" (Kenneth MacKinnon); "An Essay in Historical Geolinguistics: Gaelic Speaking in Urban Lowland Scotland in 1891" (C. W. J. Withers); "What Future for Scotland's Gaelic-Speaking Communities?" (Clive James); "Bicultural Conflict in the Context of the Core-Periphery Model" (Don Cartwright); "The Spatial Organisation of Language in Canada, 1981" (John de Vries); "Gaelic in Nova Scotia" (John Edwards); "Language Made Visible: Representation in Geolinguistics" (J. Ambrose, C. H. Williams); and "Sound Language Planning Is Holistic in Nature" (Colin H. Williams). Contents are indexed. (MSE)