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Language attitudes and language revival/survival

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
Language attitudes can be positive or negative, and can have both positive and negative effects on language revival/survival, depending on how deeply ingrained the attitude may be in the holder's mind. Some attitudes are changeable and others are not.
Jeanie Bell
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Language revival: Restoration or transformation?

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1993
The literature on language revival reveals conflicting opinions as to what constitutes a successful revival and what factors are relevant to its success. This paper suggests that many of the controversies over what methods revivalists should adopt and what results they should be seeking could be reduced if a clear distinction were recognised between ...
Abdelâli Bentahila, Eirlys E. Davies
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Language shift and language revival in Crimea

International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2019
Abstract This article presents observations and findings from an ongoing research on language revival among Italian new speakers in Crimea. Victim of Stalin’s mass deportations of minorities in the 1940s, the community experienced severe physical, demographic, social and cultural dislocation that led inexorably to language shift towards Russian ...
Paola Bocale
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The Ecology of Language Revival

Current Issues in Language Planning, 2001
Language revival is a difficult undertaking, and so new frameworks for understanding and effecting it are always of interest. The adoption of an ecological viewpoint in linguistics has been one of these. Contemporary versions (or visions), however, are unlikely to prove substantial: they are not particularly innovative, nor are their foundations sturdy
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Language revival

2023
AbstractThis chapter reviews the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language revival movement that is taking hold across much of Australia. First it takes an historical perspective, then overviews current language revival activities state by state.
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Language endangerment and language revival

Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2003
Books reviewed in this article:David Crystal, Language DeathLeanne Hinton and Ken Hale (eds.), The Green Book of Language Revitalization in PracticeDaniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine, Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's ...
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Reviving the Language Debate

2020
This chapter examines early attempts to overturn the 1902 official bilingual law. The PIP passionately favored such a move, but with few legislative seats any change in language policy would be up to the two larger parties. Concerned that Congress might disapprove of a statehood applicant jettisoning English as an official language, the pro-statehood ...
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