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British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 2010
Valerie Jones grew up in Bethal Caernarfon, in Gwynedd, Wales, where she still lives with her husband, Dewi. She has been a healthcare assistant (HCA) for 4 years, and before this she was a full-time mum to her two sons, Matthew, 12, and Ben, 11.
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Valerie Jones grew up in Bethal Caernarfon, in Gwynedd, Wales, where she still lives with her husband, Dewi. She has been a healthcare assistant (HCA) for 4 years, and before this she was a full-time mum to her two sons, Matthew, 12, and Ben, 11.
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Diglossia, ethnolinguistic vitality, and language behavior
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1994L'A. examine la contribution des concepts de diglossie et de vitalite ethnolinguistique a la comprehension et a la prediction du comportement linguistique dans des contextes bilingues ou multilingues. L'efficacite de ces deux concepts a expliquer la frequence du choix de la langue est examinee de maniere contrastive a travers l'analyse de donnees sur ...
Rodrigue Landry, Réal Allard
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Rating the vitality of sign languages
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014The Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS), developed by Lewis and Simons and based on work by Fishman, provides a means of rating ‘language vitality’ – the level of development or endangerment – where ‘development’ is understood as adding or preserving functions and ‘endangerment’ as loss of function.
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Quichua language vitality: an Ecuadorian perspective
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2004This commentary aims to reinforce and to some degree clarify Hornberger and Coronel-Molina's discussion of Quechua by providing further data regarding Ecuadorian Quichua today. Based on personal fieldwork and ongoing discussions with Quichua and non-Quichua speakers about the status of Quichua in Ecuador, this paper presents up-to-date data which ...
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The digital language vitality scale: a model for assessing digital vitality of languages [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper, we present the Digital Language Vitality Scale, a tool for measuring the degree of digital vitality of languages. Digital vitality can be defined as the extent to which a language is present, used and usable over the Internet through digital devices. The scale is inspired to ethnolinguistic vitality assessment (such as GIDS, Fishman 2001)
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Assessing Language Vitality of the Gorontalo Language
This study aims to examine the linguistic vitality of the Gorontalo language, which was assessed as a threatened language by Ethnologue in 2020 (Eberhard, et al., 2020). Based on an extensive literature review, two research questions emerged: 1) What is the current language vitality of the Gorontalo Language?openaire +1 more source
Language endangerment and vitality
Abstract This chapter considers the current status of the Bantu languages in relation to language endangerment, which has resulted from the multiplication and resultant contact between the Bantu languages themselves and between them and non-Bantu languages over the last 3,500 years of expansion into central, eastern, and southern ...openaire +1 more source