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Can majority support save an endangered language? A case study of language attitudes in Guernsey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Many studies of minority language revitalisation focus on the attitudes and perceptions of minorities, but not on those of majority group members. This paper discusses the implications of these issues, and presents research into majority andf minority ...
Baker C.   +27 more
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Remote language revitalisation efforts during COVID-19

open access: yesTechnology, Pedagogy and Education, 2022
As schools shift to online instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to support disenfranchised populations and keep issues of equity at the centre of our response. In this study, the authors focus on supporting one of the few urban-based
Grahm Wiley-Camacho   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Endangered languages: The case of Irish Gaelic [PDF]

open access: yesTraining, Language and Culture, 2018
Research into why some languages die and why other languages survive is an important area of linguistic and cultural research. Languages represent a culture and when the language dies, more often than not, the culture it expresses dies with it.
Peter McGee
doaj   +1 more source

“But this doesn’t look Vilamovian”: Lesser-Known Determinants of the Cultural Distinctiveness of Vilamovians

open access: yesAdeptus, 2022
Researchers who study Wilamowice regard the costume and language as the main determinants of the cultural distinctiveness of the Vilamovians. The representatives of this ethnic group themselves also presented them as the most important.
Tymoteusz Król
doaj   +1 more source

Heritage, gentrification, participation : remaking urban landscapes in the name of culture and historic preservation : introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This special issue explores the relationship between heritagization, shifting economies, and urban struggles in different cities around the globe. Our aim is to examine the conditions that have brought history, culture, an old/new urban aesthetics, real ...
De Cesari, Chiara, Dimova, Rozita
core   +2 more sources

Transformative pedagogy and language learning in Maori and Irish contexts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Establishing positive learning communities in classrooms where pedagogies are socially and culturally responsive and centred on shared life experiences is critical for the revitalisation of minoritised languages such as Irish and Māori, which lack the ...
Berryman, Mere   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Opponents and supporters of water policy change in the Netherlands and Hungary [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper looks at the role of individuals and the strategies that they use to bring about or oppose major policy change. Current analysis of the role that individuals or small collectives play in periods of major policy change has focussed on ...
Roth, D., Warner, J.F., Werners, S.E.
core   +7 more sources

Livonian in the linguistic landscape

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2022
In the context of endangered languages, the linguistic landscape is viewed as an effective way of expressing the symbolic value of a language and enhancing language awareness.
Gunta Kļava, Valts Ernštreits
doaj   +1 more source

Redefining Therapies for Drug‐Resistant Tuberculosis: Synergistic Effects of Antimicrobial Peptides, Nanotechnology, and Computational Design

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Antimicrobial peptide (AMP)‐loaded nanocarriers provide a multifunctional strategy to combat drug‐resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. By enhancing intracellular delivery, bypassing efflux pumps, and disrupting bacterial membranes, this platform restores phagolysosome fusion and macrophage function.
Christian S. Carnero Canales   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Faclair na Gàidhlig and Corpas na Gàidhlig: New Approaches Make Sense [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
For minority languages in the twenty-first century increasingly overshadowed by their global counterparts, language maintenance and revitalisation are of paramount importance. Closely linked to these issues is the question of corpus planning.
O Maolalaigh, Roibeard, Pike, Lorna
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