Maintenance and loss of minority languages / edited by Willem Fase, Koen Jaspaert, Sjaak Kroon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fase, Willem.

Jaspaert, K.

Kroon, Sjaak.

Series:

Studies in bilingualism ; v. 1.

Studies in bilingualism (SiBil) ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language maintenance.

Linguistic minorities.

Language attrition.

Code switching (Linguistics).

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of the book theoretical perspectives are presented, followed by linguistic, sociological and descriptive studies of languages and countries that have attracted the interest of researchers before, as well as less well known examples. Data are presented from: the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Israel, The Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Morocco, Finland, Malaysia, Germany, USA, Ireland, India, Tanzania and Australia.

Contents:

section 1. Perspectives

section 2. Various approaches (part 1) : linguistic studies

section 2. Various approaches (part 2) : Sociological studies

section 2. Various approaches (part 3) : descriptive studies

section 3. Prospects.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-55619-344-0

90-272-8289-7

1-283-22226-4

9786613222268

OCLC:

742333681