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Objective Vitality as Moderator of Ethnolinguistic Identity Gratifications

Communication Research Reports, 2014
This article examines the role of subjective and objective determinants of ethnolinguistic identity gratifications among Swedish speakers in Finland (N = 703) and French speakers in Canada (N = 4969). As expected, in both settings, the results demonstrated that ethnolinguistic identity as well as ethnolinguistic vitality significantly predicted the ...
László Vincze, Nathalie Freynet
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Ethnolinguistic Orientation and Language Variation: Measuring and Archiving Ethnolinguistic Vitality, Attitudes, and Identity

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2014
Abstract Sociolinguists and social psychologists have long been interested in how language variation is associated with social psychological variables, including people's beliefs about and attitudes toward languages and their speakers, as well as their feelings of affiliation with ethnolinguistic groups, and there
Kimberly A. Noels, Hali Kil, Yang Fang
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Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Minority Education

The Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education, 2009
To respect and protect linguistic and cultural diversity is one of the core principles of UNESCO and EU. Yet globalisation has considerably challenged the sustainability of small ethnic and linguistic communities. Increased mobility, concentration of wealth, and new information technologies are inevitably working towards the decrease of cultural and ...
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Impact of state indifference on ethnolinguistic vitality

Journal of Language and Discrimination, 2023
This paper reports on ethnolinguistic vitality and the impact of state indifference on it among Baltis of Kargil in Ladakh division of former Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) state in India. The Baltis of Kargil have registered a negative population growth over last three consecutive decades in official records even when the population of district Kargil ...
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Understanding and forecasting Ethnolinguistic Vitality

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
Forecasting of ethnolinguistic vitality can only be done within a well-functioning descriptive and explanatory model of the dynamics of language stability and shift. It is proposed that the Perceived Benefit Model of Language Shift, used with a taxonomy of language shift motivations, provides that model.
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Refining the notion of ethnolinguistic vitality

International Journal of Multilingualism, 2010
Abstract The paper argues that the notion of ethnolinguistic vitality has been used ambiguously in the vitality theory, denoting three distinct theoretical concepts: sustainability (Su), strength (S) and vitality (V). It is hypothesised that sustainability is a group's ability to continue existing as a group while vitality is its ability to act as a ...
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Diglossia, ethnolinguistic vitality, and language behavior

International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1994
L'A. examine la contribution des concepts de diglossie et de vitalite ethnolinguistique a la comprehension et a la prediction du comportement linguistique dans des contextes bilingues ou multilingues. L'efficacite de ces deux concepts a expliquer la frequence du choix de la langue est examinee de maniere contrastive a travers l'analyse de donnees sur ...
Rodrigue Landry, Réal Allard
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Surveying the ethnolinguistic vitality of two contested languages

2021
Abstract In this chapter we present the results of a Polish-Italian research project aimed at evaluating and comparing the vitality of two contested languages: Kashubian in Poland and Piedmontese in Italy. Despite their different institutional status (Kashubian is a
Nicole DolowyRybinska, Claudia Soria
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Ethnolinguistic vitality in the Danish capital of America'

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1991
Abstract This paper analyses objective/subjective and qualitative/quantitative aspects of vitality in Solvang, a Danish‐American community. The setting is interesting for its radical transformation from being all about leading a fulfilling (Grundtvigian) community life to being instrumentally all about attracting tourists with an external Danish facade.
Kristiansen, Tore, Harwood, Jake, Giles, Howard   +2 more
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Ethnolinguistic Vitality, Identity and Power: Investment in SLA

Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2020
This article concerns the relationship between social context, identity and intergroup relations. It reviews early formulations pertaining to contextual influences and proceeds to examine vitality theory, specifically, ethnolinguistic vitality (EV). The ensuing discussion considers objective aspects of EV such as the demographic representation of a ...
Richard Clément, Bonny Norton
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