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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"language shift"”.
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Effects of Language Shift on Families and Young Children
… when these families make decisions about the language use in their homes. These decisions may be intentional or be a result of situations that evolve over time. Nevertheless young children in the home will be impacted. Some factors that affect patents’ decisions are community language use, …
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!Ui-Taa language shift in Gordonia and Postmasburg Districts, South Africa
… presents a case study of the demise of !Ui-Taa languages in South Africa during the 20th century, with particular attention to N|u, the last surviving variety. The geographic focus is on Gordonia and Postmasburg Districts in the Northern Cape province. Drawing on the work of Diamond (1998), the …
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Shift Happens, but When? The Timing of Language Shift in Immigrant Generations
… assumption in prior research that the process of language shift is entirely the outcome of mother-tongue shift, an intergenerational process. It is not a simple matter of mother-tongue shift, nor is it a process experienced in the same way by all immigrant groups. The maintenance of a non-English …
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French to Frenchness: Language shift and lieux de memoire in the American midwest
… two questions: (1) What happened to the language of the former New France in the Midwest; and (2) under what form did it survive, if at all.
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Parental choice of minority language education in language shift situations in Brittany and Scotland
… the impact of bilingual education (immersion and language maintenance programmes) and the vitality of minority languages. It explores multiple factors, including parental expectations, that influence the decisions of parents who have chosen to educate their children through the medium of the …
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Language shift or maintenance in Tamazight: A sociolinguistic study of Chaouia in Batna, Algeria.
… largest Berber group in Algeria. It examines language choice and use in three understudied communities in the plains of Aurès. It takes a multidisciplinary approach built on sociolinguistic and sociological theories to examine the role of history, language attitudes, language policies, …
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Marra and Kriol : the loss and maintenance of knowledge across a language shift boundary
… extent it remains unclear what the loss of a language actually entails in cultural terms. In the Roper River Region of the Northern Territory few Marra people speak their heritage language, shifting almost completely to becoming a Kriol-speaking population. This study considers the Marra …
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Marra and Kriol : the loss and maintenance of knowledge across a language shift boundary
… extent it remains unclear what the loss of a language actually entails in cultural terms. In the Roper River Region of the Northern Territory few Marra people speak their heritage language, shifting almost completely to becoming a Kriol-speaking population. This study considers the Marra …
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Kia mate rā anō a Tama-nui-te-rā: reversing language shift in Kōhanga reo
This thesis focuses on reversing language shift (RLS) efforts via the revernacularisation of te reo Māori (the Māori language) in Te Amokura Kōhanga Reo (Māori language nest). J. Fishman’s (2001a) graded intergenerational disruption scale (GIDS), and M. Durie’s (2001, 2003) discussions on Māori …
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A sociolinguistic investigation of language shift among Libyan Tuareg: the case of Ghat and Barkat
This study explores a shift situation among Libyan Tuareg in the southwestern region of Libya. They are shifting from Targia (Tamaheq), an indigenous minority language, to Arabic, the predominant language in the country. The two communities under investigation are Ghat, ethnically and …
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On the issues of language contact and language shift in Tok Pisin - focusing on two "non-standard" varieties: highlands pidgin and anglicised pidgin.
Tok Pisin is the most prevailing common language in Papua New Guinea. It was originally an English lexifier pidgin language and has developed as the virtual universal lingua franca in this multilingual country where over 850 indigenous languages are spoken today (Nekitel 1998). The term Tok Pisin …
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从语码转换到语言转移以槟榔屿潮州话为例 = From Code-Switching to Language Shift: A Case Study on Penang Teochew
Most students of code-switching would name language shift or language death as one of the many consequences of code-switching. Meanwhile, students of language shift would demonstrate how code-switching happens during the process of shifting. Nevertheless, no one has yet proven or disproven that …
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Tsudzuluso ya Luambo lwa Tshivenda kha Tshitiriki tsha Beitbridge kha la Zimbabwe
Language shift is the process whereby members of a community in which more than one language is spoken abandon their original language in favour of another. This research concerns language shift by speakers of the Tshivenḓa language found in Beitbridge district in Zimbabwe. The Vhavenḓa people in …
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Forecasting the vitality of the Fur language: A study in language use patterns and attitudes in Darfur
<p>The Fur language of Darfur, Sudan has been undergoing a decades-long language shift to the more dominant and prestigious Arabic spoken throughout the country. However, a decade of conflict in Darfur has brought greater awareness of ethnic identity and disrupted the previously-documented language …
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Code-Switching and Language Ideology in a Northern Dene Community
… with the bodies of scholarly literature on the language and language family, and on code-switching and language shift, provide the background and context for this study. A fusion of linguistic (language documentation and conversation analysis), ethnographic (participant observation) and …
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Cultural and language maintenance and shift in an immigrant African community of KwaZulu-Natal: the Zanzibaris of Durban
… a contribution to the study of cultural and language maintenance and shift among minority communities in South Africa. It explores the contact situation and implications thereof of the Zanzibari speech community in the post-apartheid Rainbow Nation South Africa. It discusses identity, …
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Mid Ulster place-names: townland names in selected parishes in South Derry and North Tyrone
… discusses the decline and survival of the Irish language in Co. Derry and Co. Tyrone as well as the impact of settlement on language contact and language shift. It is clear that a number of geographical, historical, religious and political influences shaped the naming process in the area. The …
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Language Ecology and Shift at Baawating, 1600-1971
Research focused on the macro-trends in Canadian language policy (LP) has largely focused on two broad trajectories: (a) the processes of accommodation of Anglophone and Francophone communities (including the limitations of Canada's policy of bilingualism for French-speaking or official-language …
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Narrative Accounts of Third-Generation Mexican-Americans: Bilingualism in a Third Space
<p>While language shift is common in immigrant families by the third generation, maintenance of the heritage language is not impossible, depending on geography and other language socializing contexts such as parental communication and interactions with monolingual relatives of the minority language …
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"""Que No Olviden Su Cultura, Y Tambien El Idioma"": A Case Study of Mayan Literacy Revival in the 'Pan -Maya Culture and Language Revitalization Movement' in Guatemala"
… Mayan literacy revival in the context of a Mayan language and culture revitalization movement occurring in Guatemala. It aspires to follow in the tradition of the New Literacy Studies. The research takes the form of a case study of two communities, Santa Eulalia, Huehuetenango, and San Pedro la …
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