- Introduction (Silvia Dal Negro, Federica Guerini)
- Regional varieties of Italian in the linguistic repertoire (Massimo Cerruti)
- Historical linguistic minorities: suggestions for classification and typology (Gabriele Iannàccaro, Vittorio Dell'Aquila)
- New linguistic minorities: repertoires, language maintenance and shift (Marina Chini)
- Italian and Italo-Romance dialects (Silvia Dal Negro, Alessandro Vietti)
- The declining status of Italian as a language of scientific communication and the issue of diglossia in scientific communities (Emilia Calaresu)
- Language policy and ideology in Italy (Federica Guerini)
- The Albanian dialects of Southern Italy: a tenuous survival (Carmela Perta)
Il volume è consultabile anche online, al seguente indirizzo:
- http://www.reference-global.com/toc/ijsl/2011/2011/210