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Revitalizing Minority Languages : New Speakers of Breton, Yiddish and Lemko.
New speakers are an increasingly important aspect of the revitalization of minority languages since, in some cases, they can make up the majority of the language community in question. This volume examines this phenomenon from the viewpoint of three minority languages: Breton, Yiddish and Lemko.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Colección: | Palgrave studies in minority languages and communities.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Minority Languages: A Crisis in Authority; 1.0 A crisis in authority; 1.1 Questions of legitimacy; 1.2 Ownership; 1.3 Breton; 1.3.1 'New' speakers of 'new' Breton; 1.3.2 Research participants in Brittany; 1.4 Yiddish; 1.5 Lemko; 1.6 Investigating minoritized language communities; 1.7 Researcher stance; 1.8 The challenges of fieldwork; 1.9 Time constraints and subsequent data; 2 Legitimate Speakers of Authentic Breton: Who Decides?; 2.0 Legitimate languages and legitimate speakers.
- 2.1 Legitimate language2.2 The legitimate speaker; 2.2.1 Revitalized Breton; 2.3 Withholding and denying speaker legitimacy; 2.3.1 Competing claims on authenticity; 2.3.2 Constructing legitimacy: the question of accent; 2.3.3 Language ideologies in the Traité de prononciation; 2.4 Profile of a new speaker of Breton; 2.5 Conclusion: notions of legitimacy in Breton; 3 In Search of Authentic Yiddish; 3.0 Introduction; 3.1 The endangerment of Yiddish; 3.2 The standardization of Yiddish; 3.3 Who speaks Yiddish?; 3.4 New speakers of Yiddish; 3.4.1 Childhood access to Yiddish.
- 3.5 Becoming a new speaker of Yiddish3.6 The construction of Yiddish speakerhood; 3.7 Legitimate speakers of Yiddish; 3.8 In search of authentic Yiddish; 3.9 A Yiddish new speaker profile; 3.10 Conclusions; 4 Who Speaks for the Lemko Language?; 4.0 Introduction; 4.1 Lemkos in Poland: a divided community; 4.2 Standardization of Rusyn; 4.2.1 Standardization of Lemko in Poland; 4.3 Education in Lemko; 4.4 Group membership of the Lemko community; 4.4.1 Lemko group identity markers; 4.4.2 The Lemko language as an identity marker; 4.5 Interacting with the Lemko language.
- 4.6 A continuum of linguistic competence4.7 New speakers of Lemko; 4.8 A new speaker of Lemko: a case study; 4.9 Representing the Lemko community: the publication of The Little Prince; 4.10 Conclusion; 5 New Speakers: The Future of Minority Languages?; 5.0 Introduction; 5.1 Issues of authenticity and legitimacy in Cornish and Guernesiais; 5.1.1 Pronunciation; 5.1.2 Lexicon; 5.1.3 Grammar; 5.2 Minority language ideologies and identity; 5.3 The 'dis/invention' of languages; 5.4 The prestige of new speaker varieties; 5.5 The performative competence of new speakers.
- 5.6 Minority languages as postvernacular languages5.6.1 Postvernacularity as performance: the example of postvernacular Yiddish; 5.7 Concluding remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Index.