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Language Maintenance and Shift in the Syrian Community
The concept of language maintenance occupies a pivotal position in the study of linguistic dynamics within diverse societies. This chapter embarks on...
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Language Maintenance and Shift Among the Syrian Community in Malaysia
This book investigates language choices in different domains among Syrian Arab Muslim families who came to Malaysia after war broke out in their...
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Family language policy and language shift in postcolonial Mozambique: a critical, multi-layered approach
This study seeks to understand the role of family language policy (FLP) in the process of language shift from Bantu languages into Portuguese, the...
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Indexical shift in Tabasaran
The Nakh-Daghestanian language Tabasaran displays indexical shift in the reported speech construction. Having many properties in common with...
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Language Shift in Nepal
This chapter mainly deals with the trends of language shift, focusing on the diverse domains of language use and impact in different languages spoken...
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On the nature of role shift
Attitude role shift is a sign language strategy to report someone else’s utterance or thought. It has been analyzed either as a kind of demonstration...
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Creating Language Shift: Factors Behind the Language Choices of Māori Speakers
This chapter will give context to the Māori language, the Indigenous language of Aotearoa New Zealand. In the modern world, there is less opportunity...
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Language Policy as Practice Advancing the Empirical Turn in Language Policy Research
This edited book brings together original contributions from scholars working across Language Policy and Planning to advance the recent 'Empirical...
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Language and Dialect Death Theorising Sound Change in Obsolescent Gascon
This book offers a systematic acoustic phonetic analysis of both language and dialect death in the region of Béarn, southwestern France. Focusing on...
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Practiced Language Policy in Family Language Policy Research
This chapter examines the concept of ‘practiced language policy’ in the context of the sociolinguistic subfield of ‘Family Language Policy’ (FLP)....
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Force shift: a case study of Cantonese ho2 particle clusters
This paper investigates force shift, a phenomenon in which the canonical discourse conventions, or force, associated with a clause type can be...
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Language Contact
English has been in contact with many different languages, which have left various traces. In this chapter, we look at four of these language contact...
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Introducing Language Policy as Practice
This chapter introduces the conceptualisation of ‘language policy as practice’ and the ensuing notion of ‘practiced language policy’. It situates the...
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Pedagogy and Practiced Language Policies: The Case of Mandarin Language Teaching in Scottish Primary Schools
This chapter examines how the notion of “practiced language policy” can be applied in the domain of foreign language teaching. Specifically, it...
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Theorising Language and Dialect Death
This chapter provides a detailed account of the various factors (internal, external, extralinguistic) that condition language variation and change,...
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The Effects of the Beginning of University Studies on the Language Revitalisation of Skolt Saami as Seen from the Perspective of Students and the Language Community
This study examines how the beginning of Skolt Saami studies at a university has affected the revitalisation of the language, as seen from the...
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Explaining Language Change
In this chapter, we address two big questions in historical linguistics: How does language change start, and how does it spread through the...
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Introducing Language Variation
The current volume brings together various aspects of language variation in South Asia, viewed from different theoretical lenses.
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Syrian Parents’ Strategies in Language Maintenance
Chapter 3 has established that Syrian parents in Malaysia value the Malay language but their primary emphasis is on learning English for education,...
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Immersion as Language Ideology and Other Discourses in English-Language Voluntourism
English-language voluntourism is a practice in which well-meaning, often uncredentialled and inexperienced, native or highly proficient English...