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A polity study of minority language management in China focusing on Zhuang
Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018This polity study is about the language policy situation in the People’s Republic of China (China) with a focus on one official minority language, Zhuang.
A. Grey
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Logos, 2022
Abstract Afrikaans is regarded as a peripheral language in the global polysystem of language, as well as a minority language in terms of the proportion of South Africa’s people who speak this language. In order to expand the market for Afrikaans trade books and to position Afrikaans literature internationally, there needs to be more visibility and ...
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Abstract Afrikaans is regarded as a peripheral language in the global polysystem of language, as well as a minority language in terms of the proportion of South Africa’s people who speak this language. In order to expand the market for Afrikaans trade books and to position Afrikaans literature internationally, there needs to be more visibility and ...
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Language Minorities and Language Maintenance
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997The position of minority groups and the maintenance of their languages are very much in the news today. For (largely) indigenous minorities, consider the case of continental Europe: As it moves—sometimes erratically—towards federalism, its minorities and its “stateless” peoples are pressing for increased and improved recognition.
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Language Awareness and Minority Languages
2015Providing an overview of ideas about as well as practices aiming at the promotion of minority languages at school through fostering pupils’ language awareness, this chapter starts with a sketch of some early developments in the scholarly interest in language awareness related to minority languages.
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2012
With more than 1.3 billion people, China exhibits an array of diversity in many domains, including education and language. The 2000 census shows a population of more than 106 million for ethnic minorities, most of whom speak one of the approximately 120 identified minority languages. This entry describes the linguistic diversity of ethnic minorities in
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With more than 1.3 billion people, China exhibits an array of diversity in many domains, including education and language. The 2000 census shows a population of more than 106 million for ethnic minorities, most of whom speak one of the approximately 120 identified minority languages. This entry describes the linguistic diversity of ethnic minorities in
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Language Policy, Literacy, and Minority Languages
Review of Policy Research, 1994This paper surveys the development of language policy over the last 40 or more years, particularly with respect to linguistic minorities and the attendant problems of illiteracy and lack of access to basic education among these groups. While there are discernible, emerging trends in the area of language policy, we make considerable effort to point out ...
Stephen L. Walter, Kay R. Ringenberg
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2006
The relationship between minorities and language is complicated and related to the development of nation-states. Language minorities, as a social group, are distinguished from minority languages. The definition of minority is problematic. The size of a minority can differ widely. For membership, there is the issue of who counts as a speaker.
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The relationship between minorities and language is complicated and related to the development of nation-states. Language minorities, as a social group, are distinguished from minority languages. The definition of minority is problematic. The size of a minority can differ widely. For membership, there is the issue of who counts as a speaker.
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2007
This chapter draws on data from the French island of Corsica as a springboard for the discussion of bilingual practices and language ideologies and attitudes concerning bilingualism in minority language contexts. Contexts such as the Corsican one raise interesting questions about how bilingualism is defined and experienced, both at the individual and ...
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This chapter draws on data from the French island of Corsica as a springboard for the discussion of bilingual practices and language ideologies and attitudes concerning bilingualism in minority language contexts. Contexts such as the Corsican one raise interesting questions about how bilingualism is defined and experienced, both at the individual and ...
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Abstract This work seeks to understand how the languages of minorities in India have been constructed and understood throughout colonialism and nationalist periods up to the present day. By using certain examples, the work also attempts to chart how concepts and practices of orality and writing, the concept of the vernacular, and the ...
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