Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages
Published on 18. June 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
403 pages
978-1-55619-348-4 (ISBN)
Description
The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of the book theoretical perspectives are presented, followed by linguistic, sociological and descriptive studies of languages and countries that have attracted the interest of researchers before, as well as less well known examples. Data are presented from: the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Israel, The Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Morocco, Finland, Malaysia, Germany, USA, Ireland, India, Tanzania and Australia.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
530 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-348-4 (9781556193484)
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Content
1. Introduction; 2. Maintenace and Loss of Minority Languages: Introductory Remarks (by Fase, Willem); 3. Perspectives; 4. Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Language Contact, Maintenance and Loss: Towards a Multifacet Theory (by Clyne, Michael); 5. Sociopolitical Aspects of Language Maintenance and Loss: Towards a Typology of Minority Language Situations (by Edwards, John); 6. Linguistic Minorities and Language Policies: Four Case Studies (by Paulston, Christina Bratt); 7. I. Various Approaches Linguistic Studies; 8. On Misunderstandings in a Non-Stabilised Situation (by Boeschoten, Hendrik); 9. Some Aspects of Language Attrition in Turkish Families in the Netherlands (by Huls, Erica); 10. A Domain Approach to the Turkish Vocabulary of Bilingual Turkish Children in the Netherlands (by Schaufeli, Anneli); 11. From the Typewriter of A.L.: A Case Study in Language Loss (by Jaspaert, Koen); 12. Some Linguistic Consequences of the Shift from Swedish to Finnish in Finland (by Tandefelt, Marika); 13. II. Various Approaches Sociological Studies; 14. Ethnolinguistic Vitality Beliefs and Language Maintenance and Loss (by Allard, Real); 15. Convergence and Divergence: Two Cases of Language Shift in Morocco (by Bentahila, Abdelai); 16. Language Maintenance and Shift: Problems of Measurement (by Vries, John de); 17. Ethnolinguistic Vitality and the Bilingual Development of Minority and Majority Group Students (by Landry, Rodrigue); 18. Language Shift in India: Issues and Implications (by Pandharipande, Rajeshwari V.); 19. Minority Languages as Core Values of Ethnic Cultures: A Study of Maintenance and Erosion of Polish, Welsh, and Chinese Languages in Australia (by Smolicz, Jerzy J.); 20. Agencies of Language Reproduction in Celtic Societies (by Williams, Colin H.); 21. III. Various Approaches Descriptive Studies; 22. Language Competence and Use among Coastal Kadazan Children: A Survey Report (by Lasimbang, Rita); 23. Some Problems of Linguistic Minorities in Japan (by Miyawaki, Hiroyuki); 24. The Hawaiian Model for the Revitalization of Native Minority Cultures and Languages (by Niedzielski, Henry Z.); 25. Minority Language Maintenance and Learning as Instruments for Improving the Status of the Minority Group (by Miseska Tomic, Olga); 26. Prospects; 27. Conference Summary (by Fishman, Joshua A.)