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Author | : James Hawkey |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2018-04-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3319745972 |
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This book presents a detailed sociolinguistic study of the traditionally Catalan-speaking areas of Southern France, and sheds new light on language attitudes, phonetic variation, language ideologies and minority language rights. The region’s complex dual identity, both Catalan and French, both peripheral and strategic, is shown to be reflected in the book’s attitudinal findings which in turn act as reliable predictors of phonetic variation. The author’s careful discursive analysis paints a clear picture of the linguistic ideological landscape: in which French dominates as the language of status and prestige. This innovative work, employing cutting-edge mixed methods, provides an in-depth account of an under-examined language situation, and draws on this research to propose a number of policy recommendations to protect minority rights for speakers of Catalan in the region. Combining language attitudes, sociophonetics, discourse studies, and language policy, this will provide an invaluable reference for scholars of French and Catalan studies and minority languages around the world.
Author | : Colin Baker |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781853591426 |
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The book aims to establish the concept of attitudes as more central to the study of minority and majority languages. The strong tradition of attitude theory and research from social psychology is made relevant to language restoration and decay. Original research shows how attitude to bilingualism is conceptually distinct from attitude to a specific language. A piece of research in Wales investigates the origins of language attitudes in individual differences and in environmental attributes.
Author | : Stephen May |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1136837078 |
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The Second Edition of this award-winning volume in the field of language rights and language policy is a timely and useful revision of its core arguments and examples, addressing new theoretical and empirical developments since its initial publication.
Author | : Colin J. Flynn |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-12-10 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781788926546 |
Download Adult Minority Language Learning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the role of attitude, motivation and identity in the process of learning a minority language, specifically the attitudes of adult learners of Irish towards acquiring various traditional (Gaeltacht) and non-traditional (second language) varieties of the language.
Author | : W. Fase |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2013-12-19 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1134379498 |
Download The State of Minority Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : John Edwards |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027218668 |
Download Minority Languages and Group Identity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Peter Garrett |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2003-07-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1783162074 |
Download Investigating Language Attitudes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a systematic and critical appraisal of the variety of ways in which people's attitudes to language have been researched internationally over recent decades. The authors explain this complex field through clear reviews and commentary on previous work, while also offering a demonstration of language attitude research in one specific and important context, the English language in Wales. In addition to discussing different ways of expressing attitudes, from teenagers' and teachers' attitudes to regional and subcultural variation in attitudes, the book also considers issues such as degrees of authentic Welshness, the impact of rapid social change in Wales.
Author | : Julia Sallabank |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2013-12-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107655889 |
Download Attitudes to Endangered Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Language attitudes and ideologies are of key importance in assessing the chances of success of revitalisation efforts for endangered languages. However, few book-length studies relate attitudes to language policies, or address the changing attitudes of non-speakers and the motivations of members of language movements. Through a combination of ethnographic research and quantitative surveys, this book presents an in-depth study of revitalisation efforts for indigenous languages in three small islands round the British Isles. The author identifies and confronts key issues commonly faced by practitioners and researchers working in small language communities with little institutional support. This book explores the complex relationship of ideologies, identity and language-related beliefs and practices, and examines the implications of these factors for language revitalisation measures. Essential reading for researchers interested in language endangerment and revitalisation, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and language policy and planning, as well as language planners and campaigners.
Author | : Isaac N. Ohia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Language awareness |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Christina Bratt Paulston |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1994-03-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027282811 |
Download Linguistic Minorities in Multilingual Settings Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most countries in the world today are multilingual, that is they contain ethnic groups in contact and not infrequently in competition. Such thinking has held implications for the setting of language policies, from hanging a wooden clog around the neck of a child heard speaking Occitan in Southern France to the considerable budgeting in Ireland for the promotion of Irish. In this book, Paulston presents an analytical framework for explaining and predicting the language behaviour of social groups as such behaviour relates to linguistic policies for minority groups. She argues that a number of factors must be considered in the understanding and establishment of language policies for minority groups: (1) if language planning is to be successful, it must consider the social context of language problems, (2) the linguistic consequences for social groups in contact will vary depending on the focus of social mobilization, i.e. ethnicity or nationalism, and (3) a major problem in the accurate prediction of such linguistic consequences lies in identifying the salient factors which contribute to language maintenance or shift, i.e. answering the question “under what conditions?”. Part I outlines and discusses the analytical framework, beginning with a general consideration of language problems and language policies and of the social factors which contribute to language maintenance and shift. The author continues to discuss four distinct types of social mobilization, which under certain specified social conditions result in different linguistic consequences: ethnicity, ethnic movements, ethnic nationalism, and geographic nationalism. The argument is that such an understanding is vital to helpful educational policies and successful language planning in general. Part II contrasts and compares a number of case studies for clarification of their diverse courses of mother tongue maintenance. It particularly seeks to illustrate the type of social mobilization discussed in Part I and to understand the social conditions which influence and alter the effects of the type of social mobilization.