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Reversing language shift : theoretical and empirical foundations of assistance to threatened languages /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fishman, Joshua A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Clevedon : Multilingual Matters, 1991.
Colección:Multilingual matters (Series) ; 76.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Language shift and reversing language shift
  • 1. What this book is about
  • 2. Why try to reverse language shift and is it possible to do so?
  • 3. Where and why does language shift occur an how can it be reversed?
  • 4. How threatened is threatened
  • Case studies
  • 5. Irish
  • 6. the cases of Basque and Frisian
  • 7. Four American examples: Navajo, Spanish and Yiddish
  • 8 Maori
  • 9. Prospects for reversing language shift in Australia
  • 10. Three success stories: Modern Hebrew, French in Quebec and Catalan in Spain.
  • Related issues
  • 11. On RLS-focused language planning and on dialect-standard issues
  • 12. The intergenerational transmission of additional languages for special purposes
  • 13. Limitations on school effectiveness in connection with mother tongue transmission
  • 14. Theoretical recapitulation.