The Role of Social Networks in Endangered Language Maintenance and Revitalization: The Case of Guernesiais in the Channel Islands  

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Sallabank, Julia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 52 no. 2 (2010), page 184-205.
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Numerous studies have found that high-density, "traditional" social networks correlate with the use of low-status or local Why some people maintain an ancestral children, while others abandon it, is a language varieties. language and transmit it to their major issue in the study of language endangerment. language of This study focuses on Guernesiais, the endangered indigenous Guernsey, Channel Islands. Baseline data were collected questionnaire and semistructured light on ideologies, attitudes, and the interlocutors correlates strongly interviews; ethnographic methods then shed processes of with fluency, language shift. using a Availability of for both native speakers and learners, but the increasing age and linguistic isolation of many contributes to both individual and societal language loss, along native speakers with other factors. Options for supporting (or reconstituting) social networks through language planning are examined.

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