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Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fase, Willem
Otros Autores: Jaspaert, Koen, Kroon, Sjaak
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.
Colección:Studies in Bilingualism Ser. ; no. 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • MAINTENANCE AND LOSS OF MINORITY LANGUAGES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Table of contents; Introduction; Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages: Introductory Remarks; Section I
  • Perspectives; Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Language Contact, Maintenance and Loss: Towards a Multifacet Theory; Sociopolitical Aspects of Language Maintenance and Loss: Towards a Typology of Minority Language Situations; Linguistic Minorities and Language Policies: Four Case Studies; Section II--Various Approaches (part 1): Linguistic Studies.
  • On Misunderstandings in a Non-Stabilised Bilingual SituationSome Aspects of Language Attrition in Turkish Families in the Netherlands; A Domain Approach to the Turkish Vocabulary of Bilingual Turkish Children in the Netherlands; From the Typewriter of A.L.: A Case Study in Language Loss; Some Linguistic Consequences of the Shift from Swedish to Finnish in Finland; Section II--Various Approaches (part 2) Sociological Studies; Convergence and Divergence: Two Cases of Language Shift in Morocco; Language Maintenance and Shift: Problems of Measurement.
  • Ethnolinguistic Vitality and the Bilingual Development of Minority and Majority Group StudentsLanguage Shift in India: Issues and Implications; Minority Languages as Core Values of Ethnic Cultures:--A Study of Maintenance and Erosion of Polish, Welsh, and Chinese Languages in Australia; Agencies of Language Reproduction in Celtic Societies; Section II--Various Approaches (part 3)Descriptive Studies; Language Competence and Use among Coastal Kadazan Children: A Survey Report; Some Problems of Linguistic Minorities in Japan.
  • The Hawaiian Model for the Revitalization of Native Minority Cultures and LanguagesMinority Language Maintenance and Learning as Instruments for Improving the Status of the Minority Group; Section III-- Prospects; Conference Summary.