ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the types of tensions that can develop among stakeholders in the process of language revitalisation. It focuses on the differing assumptions that tend to prompt these tensions among stakeholders, with a specific focus on linguists and communities. The chapter explores a range of topics associated with the collaborative approaches that support language revitalisation. It considers how the Meeting Point project has offered opportunities for transforming research, partnerships, and the practice of linguistics through its focus on language revitalisation. In the Australian context, meeting points between linguists and communities can be problematic due to the need to negotiate histories, perceptions, and practices around authority. Institutions such as government departments, schools, and universities have important roles to play in supporting language revitalisation. The language and culture awareness developing within the school system naturally begins to move out to students' home environments, and so moves outwards into whole communities.
