| Description |
1 online resource (415 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in Bilingualism Ser. No. 1 |
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Studies in Bilingualism Ser. ; no. 1
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Language maintenance.
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Linguistic minorities.
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Language attrition.
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Code switching (Linguistics)
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Sociolinguistics.
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sociolinguistics.
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Code switching (Linguistics)
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Language attrition
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Language maintenance
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Linguistic minorities
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Sociolinguistics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jaspaert, Koen
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Kroon, Sjaak
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| LC no. |
92009267 |
| ISBN |
9789027282897 |
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9027282897 |
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9789027241016 |
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9027241015 |
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1556193440 |
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9781556193446 |
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1283222264 |
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9781283222266 |
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9786613222268 |
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6613222267 |
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