Transmitting Minority Languages

Author : Michael Hornsby,Wilson McLeod
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030879105

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Transmitting Minority Languages by Michael Hornsby,Wilson McLeod Pdf

This book gives fresh insight into the diverse ways in which the transmission of minority and heritage languages is carried out in a range of sociolinguistic contexts. When traditional modes of intergenerational transmission begin to break down, minority language and diaspora communities resort to other modes of transmission, out of necessity, to complement traditional mechanisms and secure language maintenance. This volume brings together a broad range of studies of these alternative modes of transmission, examining the complex and diverse practical, ideological and personal challenges that arise in different settings. Beyond addressing the dynamics of language use within the home and family, the book also emphasises the importance of the participation of the minority community itself in language and cultural transmission. These mechanisms and initiatives, sometimes overlooked or dismissed in the academic literature, will prove to be essential in maintaining and ensuring the survival of minority and heritage languages into the 21st century and beyond. The twelve chapters in the book are divided into four sections (intergenerational transmission; transmission in post-traditional families; alternatives to ‘traditional’ transmission; and transmission in diasporic contexts), and the language contexts, both minoritised and diasporic, which are discussed include Basque, Breton, Galician, Guernesais, Irish, Māori, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Sorbian and Spanish. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language acquisition, heritage language maintenance and revitalization, and language policy and planning.

Author : Michael Hornsby
Publisher : Springer
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137498809

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Revitalizing Minority Languages by Michael Hornsby Pdf

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.

Author : Willem Fase,Koen Jaspaert,Sjaak Kroon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027241016

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Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages by Willem Fase,Koen Jaspaert,Sjaak Kroon Pdf

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.

Author : James N. Stanford,Dennis Richard Preston
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027218643

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Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages by James N. Stanford,Dennis Richard Preston Pdf

Indigenous minority languages have played crucial roles in many areas of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, and the ethnography of communication. Such languages have, however, received comparatively little attention from quantitative or variationist sociolinguistics. Without the diverse perspectives that underrepresented language communities can provide, our understanding of language variation and change will be incomplete. To help fill this gap and develop broader viewpoints, this anthology presents 21 original, fieldwork-based studies of a wide range of indigenous languages in the framework of quantitative sociolinguistics. The studies illustrate how such understudied communities can provide new insights into language variation and change with respect to socioeconomic status, gender, age, clan, lack of a standard, exogamy, contact with dominant majority languages, internal linguistic factors, and many other topics.

Author : John Edwards
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027288684

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Minority Languages and Group Identity by John Edwards Pdf

The central concern in this book is the relationship between language and group identity, a relationship that is thrown into greatest relief in ‘minority’ settings. Since much of the current interest in minority languages revolves around issues of identity politics, language rights and the plight of ‘endangered’ languages, one aim of the book is to summarise and analyse these and other pivotal themes. Furthermore, since the uniqueness of every language-contact situation does not rest upon unique elements or features – but, rather, upon the particular weightings and combinations of features that recur across settings – the second aim here is to provide a general descriptive framework within which a wide range of contact settings may be more easily understood. The book thus begins with a discussion of such matters as language decline, maintenance and revival, the dynamics of minority languages, and the ecology of language. It then offers a typological framework that draws and expands upon previous categorising efforts. Finally, the book presents four case studies that are both intrinsically interesting and – more importantly – provide specific illustrations of the generalities discussed earlier.

Author : Durk Gorter
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853591041

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Fourth International Conference on Minority Languages by Durk Gorter Pdf

The theme of this volume is comparative research on minority languages and development of theories. The three previous volumes focused mainly on problems of definition, on language in society and on the linguistics of minority languages. This fourth ICML attempts to go forward by concentrating, on the one hand, on comparative research regarding minority languages and on the other hand on the development of theories in this field. It allows for a confrontation of different emerging theoretical perspectives.

Author : Cassie Smith-Christmas,Noel P. Ó Murchadha,Michael Hornsby,Máiréad Moriarty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137575586

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New Speakers of Minority Languages by Cassie Smith-Christmas,Noel P. Ó Murchadha,Michael Hornsby,Máiréad Moriarty Pdf

This book represents the first collection specifically devoted to New Speaker Studies, focusing on language ideologies and practices of speakers in a variety of minority language communities. Over thirteen chapters, it uses the new speaker lens to investigate not only linguistic issues, such as language variation and change, phonetics, morphosyntax, language acquisition, code-switching, but also sociolinguistic issues, such as legitimacy, integration, and motivation in language learning and use. Besides covering a range of languages - Basque, Breton, Galician, Giernesiei, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh - and their different sociolinguistic situations, the chapters also encompass a series of interactional settings: institutional settings, media and the home domain, as well as different contexts for becoming a new speaker of a minority language, such as by migration or through education. This collection represents an output by a lively network of researchers: it will appeal to postgraduate students, researchers and academics working in the field of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, language policy and those working within minority language communities.

Author : D. Gorter,H. F. Marten,L. Van Mensel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230360235

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Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape by D. Gorter,H. F. Marten,L. Van Mensel Pdf

Providing an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space this volume explores minority language situations through the lens of linguistic landscape research. Based on very tangible data it explores the 'same old issues' of language contact and language conflict in new ways.

Author : A. Pauwels,J. Winter,J. Lo Bianco
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230206397

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Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts by A. Pauwels,J. Winter,J. Lo Bianco Pdf

Deals with challenges to the maintenance of minority (or community) languages in this era of globalization and increasing transnational movements of people. The contributors, experts in language policy, language maintenance and multilingualism offer complementary perspectives from Australia and Europe on the maintenance of linguistic diversity.

Author : Isabel Velázquez
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788922296

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Household Perspectives on Minority Language Maintenance and Loss by Isabel Velázquez Pdf

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.

Author : Helen Kelly-Holmes
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1853595683

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Minority Language Broadcasting by Helen Kelly-Holmes Pdf

This volume examines the historical context, current state of and future prospects for broadcasting in minority languages, taking Irish and Breton as case studies. Practitioners and academics from a variety of disciplines come together to identify and debate the key issues that will mean success or failure for minority language broadcasting in the new millennium.

Author : Michael J. Cormack,Niamh Hourigan
Publisher : Multilingual Matters Limited
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106018881075

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Minority Language Media by Michael J. Cormack,Niamh Hourigan Pdf

Presents a collection of essays on general topics on minority language media, as well as studies of specific examples. This work attempts to define and develop minority language media as a distinct field of study.

Author : M Kalantzis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0850006295

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Minority Languages and Dominant Culture by M Kalantzis Pdf

Author : Robert Clifford Williamson
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015029155341

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Minority Languages and Bilingualism by Robert Clifford Williamson Pdf

This book deals with the past, present, and possible future of minority languages. It begins with a number of relevant concepts in macro-sociolinguistics as a background for analyzing the problems associated with minority languages. The fundamental question posed throughout is whether these minority languages will continue to exist, caught as they are in the strong currents of national and international development. A history of the society and language is given for each area. Comparisons are made in quantitative terms, in addition to interpretations based on the spontaneous remarks of interviewees. Beyond the statistical comparisons between samples and the differences of age, gender, and social class, the attitudes of the interviewees toward their respective minority language make the reader aware of the emotional reactions to questions of ethnic and language identity. In the final chapter, language planning is discussed.

Author : W. Fase,K. Jaspaert,S.J. Kroon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134379491

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The State of Minority Languages by W. Fase,K. Jaspaert,S.J. Kroon Pdf

Many regional languages across the world are threatened by modernization and urbanization whilst the universal and rapid rise of migration has created new and unprecedented forms of multilingualism. Aspects of education, national policies and attitudes towards minority languages are documented.