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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. A model is used to relate measures of language health in
M J Keane, B Griffith, J W Dunn
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Language Maintenance

2022
Language maintenance involves efforts to maintain an existing language, as opposed to language planning (see the separate Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics article Language Policy and Planning, which may implement changes to an existing language; language maintenance efforts may also involve some language planning where needed.
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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 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 maintenance and language shift: community languages in Australia, 1996

People and place, 1998
There is a continuing significant shift to English spoken in the home among Australia’s established community language groups. There are also success stories in language maintenance. Factors influencing language use include the distribution of speakers, the age profile of the community, intermarriage patterns and cultural distance from Anglo ...
M, Clyne, S, Kipp
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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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Language shift or maintenance

Language Problems and Language Planning, 2017
AbstractPakistan is a multilingual country with six major and over 59 minor languages. However, the languages used by the domains of power, (government, corporate sector, media and education), are English and Urdu. Compared to the other regional languages in Pakistan, the Sindhi language has a more emancipated position in the state-run schools and some
Maya Khemlani David   +2 more
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Language Maintenance and Language Death

2012
This book provides the first extensive description of Texas Alsatian, a critically-endangered Texas German dialect, as spoken in Medina County in the 21st century. The dialect was brought to Texas in the 1840s by colonists recruited by French entrepreneur Henri Castro and has been preserved with minimal change for six generations.
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