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Enregistering authenticity in language revitalisation
Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2018Authenticity is a key concept of language revitalisation; any attempt to restore the language practices of the past aims at achieving the authentic language. Since, as much of recent sociolinguistic scholarship has argued, this goal can only be met through metapragmatic activities, the emically defined success of language revitalisation also depends on
Csanád Bodó, Noémi Fazakas
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Revitalising contested languages
2021Abstract This chapter opens with an introduction to the Lombard language and its institutional and sociolinguistic situation, including the reasons why the term “language” is used and not the commonly used “dialect”. The second and main part of the chapter looks
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Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2021
This article presents findings from research on Tonga language revitalisation. Tonga is a formerly marginalised indigenous language spoken in north-western Zimbabwe. It is part of Zimbabwe’s linguistic ecology comprising 16 officially recognised languages that exist in a polyglossic situation.
Jubilee Chikasha, Anne-Marie Beukes
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This article presents findings from research on Tonga language revitalisation. Tonga is a formerly marginalised indigenous language spoken in north-western Zimbabwe. It is part of Zimbabwe’s linguistic ecology comprising 16 officially recognised languages that exist in a polyglossic situation.
Jubilee Chikasha, Anne-Marie Beukes
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Governance, Policy-Making and Language Revitalisation
2021This essay reflects on the significance for contemporary language revitalisation programmes of regionalisation, internationalisation, the continued advance of the market and the emergence of post-welfare models of governance, drawing on evidence from Wales, Scotland, Catalonia, the Basque Autonomous Community and Ireland.
Huw Lewis, Wilson McLeod
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Introduction: Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation
2021This introductory chapter elaborates on some of the main instances of contemporary social, economic and political change that are posited as having potentially important implications for current efforts to pursue language revitalisation. Based on that discussion it then turns to review the literature on language revitalisation in order to highlight ...
Huw Lewis, Wilson McLeod
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Communities, Networks and Contemporary Language Revitalisation
2021This essay highlights different understandings of community—the traditional territorial understanding and the newer networked one—and considers how language use can best be understood in the context of social lives that are increasingly stretched across diverse physical and virtual spaces.
Huw Lewis, Wilson McLeod
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Language Revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland
2019Situated within the interrelated disciplines of applied sociolinguistics and the sociology of language, this book explores the language use and attitudinal perceptions of a sample of 130 adults who received Gaelic-medium education (GME) at primary school, during the first years of that system’s availability in Scotland.
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Maori bilingual education and language revitalisation
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1989The attempts at Maori language revival started in the 1970s, at a stage when there were few children still growing up speaking the language. The most important innovation has been the development of pre‐school language nests; several thousand children now come to elementary school after a pre‐school programme taught entirely or mainly in Maori.
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