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Language shift and language revival in Crimea

open access: yesInternational 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 ...
Bocale Paola
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Quantifying the Driving Factors for Language Shift in a Bilingual Region [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017
Prochazka K, Vogl G.
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Language Shift

2021
Abstract Language shift occurs when a community of users replaces one language by another, or “shifts” to that other language. Although language shift can and does occur at the level of the individual speaker, it is shift at the level of an entire community that is associated with widespread language replacement and loss.
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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 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 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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A shifting language-scape

European Journal of Language Policy, 2023
By engaging the literature of transnationalism and Latinx studies with that of multiliteracies, this article contends that the cultural and linguistic complexities experienced by Spanishspeaking populations in global cities can be better addressed by a multiliteracies framework.
Lorena García-Barroso   +1 more
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