Reversing Language Shift: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened LanguagesThis 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. |
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Contents
Why Try to Reverse Language Shift and Is It Really Possible | 10 |
Where and Why Does Language Shift Occur and How Can | 39 |
How Threatened is Threatened? A Typology of Disadvantaged | 81 |
A BAKERS DOZEN FROM SEVERAL CONTINENTS | 122 |
Secular and UltraOrthodox | 187 |
from its Aboriginal and Immigrant Languages | 252 |
Modern Hebrew French | 287 |
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| Title | Reversing Language Shift: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages Volume 76 of Multilingual matters |
| Author | Joshua A. Fishman |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Multilingual Matters, 1991 |
| ISBN | 1853591211, 9781853591211 |
| Length | 431 pages |
| Subjects | › › Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics Psychology / General |
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