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Role of Trade and the Media in Minority Language Maintenance

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2017
Malawi has more than 14 languages but only a few of these, including ciCewa, ciYao and ciTumbuka, have a significant number of active speakers. This article examines the retention of ciNsenga, a minority indigenous language, which provides a different ...
Victor Chikaipa, Pascal Kishindo
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Sustainable Intensification Option for Sorghum‐Based Cropping Systems in the West African Savanna: A Review of Soil and Crop Management Practices

International Journal of Agronomy, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Sub‐Saharan Africa faces rising demand for cereal production under conditions of soil degradation, erratic rainfall, and intensifying land use, making sustainable sorghum‐based systems in the West African savanna a regional priority. We synthesized peer‐reviewed and institutional literature published between 1990 and 2024, identified through systematic
Folorunso M. Akinseye, Hakeem A. Ajeigbe, Martin Moyo, Dilys S. MacCarthy, Ajit Govind, Anthony M. Whitbread, Nidhi Chaudhary   +6 more
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Gender, Status and Power in Discourse Behavior of Men and Women

Linguistik Online, 2013
Sociolinguistic approaches to the relationship between gender and status/power analyze either linguistic or social and cultural phenomena in a given speech community. While in the former approach a gender pattern is observed regarding the use of language,
Peter Kunsmann
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They Soon Forgot Their Words - Documentary [PDF]

, 2019
This documentary film, They Soon Forgot Their Words, is about the language issues that threaten the Kaqchikel Mayan language spoken in Guatemala. It is one of 21 Mayan languages spoken in the country and is one of the most widely used with more than 500 ...
Paulk, Karen
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Expressing Prejudice through the Linguistic Intergroup Bias: Second Language Confidence and Identity among Minority Group Members [PDF]

, 2008
The role of verbal communication in the transmission of prejudice has received much theoretical attention (Hecht, 1998; Le Couteur & Augoustinos, 2001), including the features of the linguistic intergroup bias (Maass, Salvi,
Clément, Richard, Shulman, Jessica L.
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Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.
Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
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Mapping the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Subanen language: socio-economic influences on language attitudes and sustainability

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This study examines the language vitality of the Subanen communities in Buug, one of the municipalities of the province of Zamboanga Sibugay in the southern Philippines, focusing on their socio-economic profile, language attitudes, and the degree of ...
Rovy M. Banguis, Fatima T. Evangelista, Norhanie S. Domato-Macarao, Janice B. Manlangit, Mark B. Ulla   +4 more
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Ethnolinguistic vitality, attitudes and normative pressure as predicors of motivation in learning and speaking Hungarian as second language in Slovenia

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014
The present study examines the motivational context of learning and speaking Hungarian as a second language among the Slovenian-speaking youth in the Dolinsko/ Lendvavidék region of Slovenia.
Enikő Marton, Nicholas Joyce, László Vincze   +2 more
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Assessing the Linguistic Vitality of Miqie: An Endangered Ngwi (Loloish) Language of Yunnan, China [PDF]

, 2015
Language shift is the process by which a speech community in a contact situation gradually abandons one language in favor of another. Because the causal factors of language shift are largely social (Fishman 1991), languages, groups, and communities with ...
Gao, Katie B
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Recognizing Health as Interdependent: A Conceptualization of Health That Reflects Our Complex World

Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Volume 19, Issue 12, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Health in the United States has been primarily approached through an individualistic lens, often framed as an individual's private property. This perspective sees health as a self‐managed state of being, reliant on individual effort, willpower, and personal responsibility.
Kengthsagn Louis, Tao Jiang
wiley   +1 more source