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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 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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Language Shift and Language Revival in Ireland

2016
Revivalists faced a momentous challenge to achieve the aims of a bilingual Ireland, reinstating the spoken Irish language, and adapting it to urban structures of ‘the worlds of commerce, politics, official religion, the professions and printed word’, from which it had been banished ‘as a result of complex socio-economic and political circumstances ...
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11. Language contraction and language shift

2011
A shift in primary language solidarity from one language towards another, via overlapping bilingualism, is probably a common process taking place in the course of life of many people in Africa (and elsewhere) today. One main cause for this phenomenon is urbanisation.
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Language Maintenance and Shift

2013
Abstract Language shift is the replacement of one language by another as the primary means of communication and socialization within a community. In an effort to understand the factors that contribute to language shift and those which seem to militate against it, this chapter explores several immigrant and non-immigrant contexts ...
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Home Language Use and Shift in Australia: Trends in the New Millennium

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
Lubei Zhang, Linda Tsung
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