Language Shift In The United States

Author : Calvin Veltman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110824000
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Shift in the United States written by Calvin Veltman and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Author : Calvin Veltman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110824000
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Shift in the United States written by Calvin Veltman and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Author : David E. Lopez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Maintenance and Shift in the United States Today: Native Americans written by David E. Lopez and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853591211
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reversing Language Shift written by Joshua A. Fishman and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the theory and practice of assistance to speech-communities whose native languages are threatened because their intergenerational continuity is proceeding negatively, with fewer and fewer speakers (or readers, writers and even understanders) every generation.

Author : Don Kulick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521599269
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction written by Don Kulick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1992, is an anthropological study of language and cultural change among the people of Gapun, a small community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea.

Author : Joshua R. Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192633589
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Verticalization Model of Language Shift written by Joshua R. Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a new and still emerging theoretical framework for understanding language shift and uses this approach to explore a range of minority language communities in the United States. To date, approaches to language shift have typically relied on explaining the process through descriptive sociolinguistic models, i.e., how the community first becomes bilingual in both the majority and minority languages and then eventually shifts entirely to the majority language. The contributions in this volume instead attribute shift to a change from local control of tightly interconnected 'horizontal' institutions within a community to more external or 'vertical' control of those increasingly autonomous institutions outside the community; in short, language shift is driven by specific changes in community structure. In addition, unlike previous approaches to language shift, the one proposed here is generalizable. Following an introduction to the theory, the main five chapters in the book offer case studies of individual language communities, in different contexts and different periods. The final three chapters of the book take a broader perspective, looking beyond the United States: two leading specialists in the field provide critical commentaries on the theoretical approach and offer refinements to a theory of language shift, before a concluding chapter draws together the findings of the case studies and reflections on the commentaries. The volume will appeal to researchers and students in the fields of language revitalization, community studies, sociolinguistics, and social history.

Author : Calvin Veltman
Publisher : Berlin : Mouton
ISBN 13 : 9789027932204
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Shift in the United States written by Calvin Veltman and published by Berlin : Mouton. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David E. Lopez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Maintenance and Shift in the United States Today: Overview and summary written by David E. Lopez and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Pauwels
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107043697
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Maintenance and Shift written by Anne Pauwels and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive discussion of the key aspects of this important sub-field of language contact and multilingualism studies.

Author : Terrence Wiley
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847693806
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States written by Terrence Wiley and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States draws from quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to inform educational policy and practice. It is based on cutting-edge research and policy analyses from a number of well-known experts on immigrant language minority education in the USA. The collection includes contributions on the acquisition of English, language shift, the maintenance of heritage languages, prospects for long-term educational achievement, how family background, economic status, and gender and identity influence academic adjustment and achievement, challenges for appropriate language testing and placement, and examples of advocacy action research. It concludes with a thoughtful commentary aimed at broadening our understanding of the need to provide quality immigrant language minority education within the context of globalization. This collection will be of value to students and researchers interested in promoting educational equity and achievement for immigrant language minority students.