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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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Shifting Land, Shifting Language

2020
Chapter One provides an overview of the themes of the book and introduces the reader to the people whose lives will be profiled in the coming chapters. It details the disappearance of the French language as well as the ongoing destruction of the land.
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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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Understanding language shift

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2023
Abstract This is a response to the commentaries on our epistemological paper, The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies. The commentaries highlight the challenges in studying language shift ecologies and the competing goals of different research approaches.
Lenore A Grenoble, Boris Osipov
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Language Shift and the Politics of Language

Language Problems and Language Planning, 1981
RESUMO La transiro de unu lingvo al alia kaj la politiko de la lingvo: la kazo de la keltaj lingvoj de Brita Insularo La esplorado pri la transiro de unu lingvo al alia restis iom izolita for de la esplorado pri la politiko de la lingvo, kaj inverse.
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Shifting Languages

1998
Indonesian is the national language of a vast, plural nation state, the world's fourth-largest country with a population of over 200 million. Although its use is growing rapidly, and is now spoken by nearly everyone over the age of six, it has almost relatively few native speakers.
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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 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 ...
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Language maintenance and language shift in Taiwan

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
Abstract When the Nationalist government first took over administrative control of Taiwan in 1945, the major languages spoken by the people of Taiwan were the Chinese dialects Hakka and Southern Min, and Japanese. A national language, Mandarin, has since then been actively promoted.
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Language Maintenance and Language Shift in Dominica

Caribbean Quarterly, 1982
(1982). Language Maintenance and Language Shift in Dominica. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 41-51.
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