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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Sociology of Language"”.
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External Language Spread Policies in Mozambique and Guniea-Bissau at the turn of the 21st Century.
… has been the setting for competing external language spread policies (LSPs) by ex-colonial European countries at the turn of the 21st Century. To explore the topic I examine the case studies of Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, in the time frame of the 1990s to the present. In both case studies …
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Speaking Identity: Language Investment and Agency Among Spanish Heritage Speakers
… identities and invest in their heritage language amid competing social forces. Drawing on frameworks of identity, agency, and critical language awareness, the study explores how Spanish shapes participants’ Latine identities and what factors influence their language investment. Using a …
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Translation Policies of Minoritised Languages through Organised Activism: a Comparative Study of Catalan and Welsh
This thesis investigates the role of states and activist organisations in the development of translation policies aimed at promoting minoritised languages. Activists have been crucial in securing language rights in Catalonia and Wales over the last six decades, and their campaigns and initiatives …
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Speech in space and time: Contact, change and diffusion in medieval Norway
… put forward by Peter Trudgill on the history of Norwegian. The theory includes several effects of societal factors on language change. Most discussed is the proposal that ‘intensive’ language contact causes simplification of language grammar. In the Norwegian case, the claim is that …