The State of Minority Languages

ISBN-13: 9789026514142 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 324 str.

W. Fase;K. Jaspaert;S.J. Kroon

Opis

Many regional languages across the world are threatened by modernization and urbanization whilst the universal and rapid rise of migration has created new and unprecedented forms of multilingualism. Aspects of education, national policies and attitudes towards minority languages are documented.

Spis treści

The state of minority languages; introductory remarks; Forging identities in the preschool: competing discourses and their relationship to research; The powers of nationalism: the Canadian Referendum of 1992; Dimensions of minority language survival/non-survival: intergroup cognitions and communication climates; Turkish and Arabic proficiency in a first and second language environment; Minority and majority language use in the family among four immigrant groups in the Nordic Region; Language-related criteria as determinants of ethnicity: goals and results of a feasibility study in the Netherlands; Language policy and regional characteristics of minority language communities; Indigenous language loss in Mexico: the process of language displacement in verbal interaction; Parent attitudes to children's LI maintenance: a cross-sectional study of immigrant groups in the Nordic countries; Reciprocity agreements as a language planning instrument for the maintenance of minority languages; The use of Finnish and Swedish in two generations of Sweden Finns; American Indian languages and United States language policy; Ecolinguistic biographies: social networks in a nursery school; Attitudes and bilingual behaviour in the Thorne Valley; Frisian diminutive formation among Frisian and Dutch primary school children; Good conferences in a wicked world: on some worrisome problems in the study of language maintenance and language shift

O autorze

Fase, W.; Jaspaert, K.; Kroon, S.J.