Transmitting minority languages : complementary reversing language shift strategies

Transmitting minority languages : complementary reversing language shift strategies / Michael Hornsby, Wilson McLeod, editors.

This book gives fresh insight into the diverse ways in which the transmission of minority and heritage languages is carried out in a range of sociolinguistic contexts. When traditional modes of intergenerational transmission begin to break down, minority language and diaspora communities resort to o...

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Other Authors: Hornsby, Michael, 1965- (Editor), McLeod, Wilson (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Series:Palgrave studies in minority languages and communities,
Subjects:
Linguistic minorities.
Sociolinguistics.
Language policy.
sociolinguistics.
Language policy
Linguistic minorities
Sociolinguistics
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Part I: Intergenerational transmission
  • Chapter 2. Tús Maith, A Good Start: Intervention and Intergenerational Transmission in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht
  • Chapter 3. Family language policy in the face of a shrinking community language: Gaelic on the Isle of Lewis
  • Part II: Transmission in post-traditional families
  • Chapter 4. The transmission of Breton in the family: the effect of family rupture and recomposition
  • Chapter 5. The importance of wider community stance for Irish-speaking families in the Gaeltacht
  • Part III: Alternatives to 'traditional' transmission
  • Chapter 6. Native and non-native speakers school language practices and transmission in Upper Lusatia
  • Chapter 7. Kura Whakarauora: Flax-roots language planning for families in Aotearoa/New Zealand
  • Chapter 8. Peer-to-peer language transmission among adults
  • Chapter 9. New ways of looking at minority language transmission from the Basque context
  • Chapter 10. Transmission of Breton among immersion-school students: the impact of home language
  • Part IV: Transmission in diasporic contexts. Chapter 11. Comparing family language policy in Sweden, Cyprus and Estonia: efforts and choices among Russian-speaking families
  • Chapter 12. Effective family language policies and intergenerational transmission of minority languages: Parental language management from autochthonous and diasporic contexts
  • Chapter 13. 'We had to make a choice': Language management in Italian transnational adoptive
  • Chapter 14. Conclusion
  • Index.

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