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Aging in Nationhood: Everyday Nationalism and Belonging Among Seniors in Old-Age Homes in Québec. [PDF]
Br J SociolABSTRACT Scholars of aging and nationalism rarely engage with each another. To remedy this gap, I examine how ethnonationalism becomes a resource for navigating the precarity of aging. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two private senior residences in a region of Québec, I show how financially privileged Québécois seniors enact nationhood through ...
Stallone J.
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A linguistic landscape of the central business district of Accra
Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2020 Using the mixed method research approach, this study investigated the linguistic landscape of the central business district of Accra, Ghana. The study employed both the Ethnolinguistic Vitality Theory (EV) and the Place Semiotics Theory to explore the ...
Jemima Asabea Anderson +5 more
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Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2020 The Polish communities from Bukovina have been studied in the last period through several research projects, initiated by both Polish and Romanian researchers.
Florin-Teodor Olariu, Veronica Olariu
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Bahasa Adang di Pulau Alor: Kajian Vitalitas Etnolinguistik
Ranah: Jurnal Kajian Bahasa, 2020 Language use is a critical indicator for ethnolinguistic vitality. The greater the number of domains where a language used, the stronger a language. This study aims to examine the vitality of Adang language in Adang Buom, Teluk Mutiara District, Alor ...
NFN Inayatusshalihah, Miranti Sudarmaji
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Countering Subtractive Bilingualism with Additive Bilingualism in the Albanian Language
Prizren Social Science Journal, 2021 The English language is the lingua franca of education, trade, and employment. However, with such a global influence, the English language sometimes interferes with the native languages via subtractive bilingualism. The aim of this essay is to ...
Diedon DORAMBARI
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Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Language in Education in the Democratic Republic of Congo [PDF]
Akofena: A simple donation of textbooks in a national language to schools in the Sankuru Province by the Ministry of Education is surprisingly met with fiery reaction by the native Tetela elite.
Nshindi-Germain MULAMBA
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Language maintenance: Factors supporting the use and maintenance of isiZulu in Soshanguve
Literator, 2023 This article aims at investigating how isiZulu speakers residing in Soshanguve report on the use of their ethnic language, isiZulu, and to use the outcomes to confirm how their language continues to be powerfully maintained in Soshanguve.
Nontobeko T. Mbatha +2 more
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Heritage Language Vitality among University Students in Malaysia
Journal of Modern Languages, 2020 Malaysia is a multi-ethnic and multilingual country where over 130 languages are spoken by a population of around 32 million people. In spite of such diversity, only one language is official: Malay.
Paolo Coluzzi
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Between the Word of the Law and Practice: a Case of the Hungarian Speakers in Serbia
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: European and Regional Studies, 2017 The paper initially presents the Serbian legislative framework relevant to the use of minority languages. The ethnolinguistic vitality of the Hungarian-speaking population in Serbia is then analysed, particularly in the Serbian province of Vojvodina. The
Mandić Marija +1 more
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Una proposta per lo studio della vitalità delle lingue
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2014 The paper deals with the establishment of a series of procedures to find out and measure the subjective ethnolinguistic vitalities of lesser used languages when the overall sociolinguistic situation is quite well-known.
Gabriele Iannaccaro +1 more
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