Reversing Language Shift
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Reversing Language Shift
Author: Joshua A. Fishman
language: en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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.
Can Threatened Languages be Saved?
Author: Joshua A. Fishman
language: en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date: 2001-01-01
Defenders of threatened languages all over the world, from advocates of biodiversity to dedicated defenders of their own cultural authenticity, are often humbled by the dimensity of the task that they are faced with when the weak and the few seek to find a safe-harbour against the ravages of the strong and the many. This book provides both practical case studies and theoretical directions from all five continents and advances thereby the collective pursuit of "reversing language shift" for the greater benefit of cultural democracy everywhere.
Language Maintenance and Shift
Author: Anne Pauwels
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2016-08-18
A comprehensive discussion of the key aspects of this important sub-field of language contact and multilingualism studies.