Theories on Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theories on Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages write by Jetske Klatter-Folmer. This book was released on 2001. Theories on Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages
Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages write by Willem Fase. This book was released on 1992. Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Language Death and Language Maintenance
Language Death and Language Maintenance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Death and Language Maintenance write by Mark Janse. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Language Death and Language Maintenance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Languages are dying at an alarming rate all over the world. Estimates range from 50% to as much as 90% by the end of the century. This collection of original papers tries to strike a balance between theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches to language death and language maintenance. It provides overviews of language endangerment in Africa, Eurasia, and the Greater Pacific Area. It also presents case studies of endangered languages from various language families. These descriptive case studies not only provide data on the degree of endangerment and the causes of language death, but also provide a general sociolinguistic and typological characterization the language(s) under discussion and the prospects of language maintenance (if any). The volume will be of interest to all those concerned with the ongoing extinction of the world's linguistic diversity.
Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance
Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance write by David Bradley. This book was released on 2013-12-16. Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Language endangerment is a fundamental issue for humanity. What rights do minority communities have concerning their languages? How does each language conceptualize the world differently? How much knowledge about the world and a local ecosystem is lost when a language disappears? What is the process involved and how can insights about this process contribute to linguistic theory? What typological insights will be lost if undescribed languages disappear before their unique structural properties are known? How can language shift be stopped or reversed? This volume comprises: * a general overview introduction * four theoretical chapters on what happens during language shift * ten case studies of autochthonous languages under threat * four case studies of migrant languages at risk * three concluding chapters discussing strategies and resources for language maintenance.
Household Perspectives on Minority Language Maintenance and Loss
Household Perspectives on Minority Language Maintenance and Loss - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Household Perspectives on Minority Language Maintenance and Loss write by Isabel Velázquez. This book was released on 2018-12-05. Household Perspectives on Minority Language Maintenance and Loss available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides an in-depth examination of minority language maintenance and loss within a group of first-generation Spanish-speaking families in the early-21st century, post-industrial, hyper-globalized US Midwest, an area that has a recent history of Latino settlement and has a low ethnolinguistic vitality for Spanish. It looks specifically at language ‘in the small spaces’, that is, everyday interactions within households and families, and gives a detailed account of the gendered nature of linguistic transmission in immigrant households, as well as offering insights into the sociolinguistic aspects of language contact dynamics. Starting with the question of why speakers choose to use and transmit their family language in communities with few opportunities to use it, this book presents the reader with a theoretical model of language maintenance in low vitality settings. It incorporates mothers’ voices and perspectives on mothering, their families’ well-being, and their role in cultural/linguistic transmission and compares the self-perceptions, motivations, attitudes and language acquisition histories of members of two generations within the same household. It will appeal to researchers and educators interested in bilingualism, language maintenance and family language dynamics as well as to those working in the areas of education, immigration and sociology.
