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Regional Development and Language Maintenance [PDF]

open access: possibleEnvironment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1993
The maintenance of cultural areas is inextricably connected to their ability to survive in economic terms. There is, however, an uneasy relationship between culture and economic development. In this paper, this relationship in an Irish-language-speaking region in the west of Ireland is examined.
M J Keane, B Griffith, J W Dunn
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Language maintenance and language shift

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1998
Patterns of language use by Sicilians and Venetians living in Sydney are here presented with particular attention to the maintenance of Italian and Dialect under the impact of widespread shift to English. Data gathered by questionnaire self-reporting are analysed according to four main variables: domain, linguistic generation, gender and region of ...
Antonia Rubino, Camilla Bettoni
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Language Maintenance and Family Language Policy

2022
One of the most significant contributions of this book to the field is bringing together various interdisciplinary perspectives on the same topic to gain a deeper insight into the role of families in the acculturation process, language maintenance and shift.
Kutlay Yagmur, Fons J. R. van de Vijver
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Language Shift and Maintenance in Israel

International Migration Review, 1971
The revival of Hebrew as a living language has often been called a modern miracle, a series of events without natural causes. A tiny group of idealists decided about the turn of the century, in a small area now known as Israel, to insist upon the use of Hebrew.
John E. Hofman, Haya Fisherman
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Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2006
Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance: By David Bradley and Maya Bradley. eds. London. RoutledgeCurzon (Taylor and Francis Group). 2002.
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Language Minorities and Language Maintenance

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997
The position of minority groups and the maintenance of their languages are very much in the news today. For (largely) indigenous minorities, consider the case of continental Europe: As it moves—sometimes erratically—towards federalism, its minorities and its “stateless” peoples are pressing for increased and improved recognition.
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Language Death and Language Maintenance

2003
Languages are dying at an alarming rate all over the world. Estimates range from 50% to as much as 90% by the end of the century. This collection of original papers tries to strike a balance between theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches to language death and language maintenance.
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