32.3703, Diss: Fala; Sociolinguistics: Author: Claudia Sanchez: ''Diss Title: Arreidis (Roots): Fala Language And Its Quest For Identity''

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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 14:45:24
From: Claudia Sanchez [csanch4 at ilstu.edu]
Subject: Diss Title: Arreidis (Roots): Fala Language And Its Quest For Identity

 
Institution: Illinois State University 
Program: English 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2021 

Author: Claudia Sanchez

Dissertation Title: Arreidis (Roots): Fala Language And Its Quest For Identity 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Fala (fax)


Dissertation Director(s):
Benjamin Schmeiser
K. Aaron Smith
Susan M. Burt
Sandra Keller

Dissertation Abstract:

In this dissertation, native speakers’, and past academics’ views of Fala are
explored, along with the sociolinguistic and ideological dimensions of those
views. This dissertation also investigates Fala’s orthographic reform, Fala’s
recognition as a language at the regional and national level, and the
repercussions it has had on research involving Fala. More generally, I present
the case of Fala as an example of the effects that language ideologies can
have on minority languages that, like Fala, with a small speaker population,
may see themselves unrecognized and forgotten by governmental linguistic
policy efforts given their size. In order to do this, the main research
questions addressed in this dissertation are, (1) What attitudes and
ideologies are at play among speakers of Fala? What effects can those
attitudes and ideologies have on Fala? (2) Additionally, what are the
attitudes and ideologies at play among academics who have researched Fala in
the past and those who research it in the present? How could these attitudes
and ideologies affect Fala? Because none of this has been done before, I hope
this dissertation will help shed some light on the current status of Fala and
what the future may hold for the language and its speakers.




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