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Title

The State of minority languages : international perspectives on survival and decline / Willem Fase, Koen Jaspaert, Sjaak Kroon.

Publication

Lisse : Swets & Zeitlinger ; Exton, PA. : Publishers, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Fase, Willem.
• Jaspaert, K.
• Kroon, Sjaak.

Description

317 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

European studies on multilingualism ; 5

Uniform Title

European studies on multilingualism ; 5.

Subjects

• Code switching (Linguistics)
• Language attrition
• Linguistic minorities
• Sociolinguistics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• The state of minority languages; introductory remarks / Willem Fase, Koen Jaspaert and Sjaak Kroon -- Forging identities in the preschool: competing discourses and their relationship to research / Jim Cummins -- The powers of nationalism: the Canadian Referendum of 1992 / John Edwards -- Dimensions of minority language survival/non-survival: intergroup cognitions and communication climates / Laura Leets and Howard Giles -- Turkish and Arabic proficiency in a first and second language environment / Rian Aarts, Jan Jaap de Ruiter and Ludo Verhoeven -- Minority and majority language use in the family among four immigrant groups in the Nordic Region / Sally Boyd, Paula Andersson, Harald Berggreen and Jorid Hjulstad Junttila -- Language-related criteria as determinants of ethnicity: goals and results of a feasibility study in the Netherlands / Peter Broeder, Guus Extra and Roeland van Hout -- Language policy and regional characteristics of minority language communities / John de Vries --
• Indigenous language loss in Mexico: the process of language displacement in verbal interaction / Rainer Enrique Hamel -- Parent attitudes to children's L1 maintenance: a cross-sectional study of immigrant groups in the Nordic countries / Anne Holmen, Sirkku Latomaa, Jorgen Gimbel, Suzanne Andersen and J. Normann Jorgensen -- Reciprocity agreements as a language planning instrument for the maintenance of minority languages / Normand Labrie -- The use of Finnish and Swedish in two generations of Sweden Finns / Jarmo Lainio -- American Indian languages and United States language policy / Jon Reyhner -- Ecolinguistic biographies: social networks in a nursery school / Linda Thompson -- Attitudes and bilingual behaviour in the Thorne Valley / Erling Wande and Birger Winsa -- Frisian diminutive formation among Frisian and Dutch primary school children / Jehannes Ytsma --
• Good conferences in a wicked world: on some worrisome problems in the study of language maintenance and language shift / Joshua A. Fishman.

ISBN

902651414X

LCCN

95218047

OCLC

• 33406604
• ocm33406604

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Columbia University Libraries