Study on contrastive outcomes?

[Mike Cahill]

Thanks, Tony, and others who have responded personally. (Tony, you don't happen to have a reference for Mitchell's work, do you?)

It seems that this is a topic of interest, but actual published studies are fairly few and not as a general rule of as much depth as could be desired. One relevant work (thanks, Heidi Orcutt-Gachiri) is Mark Sicoli's chapter in Ethnographic Contributions to the Study of Endangered Languages, at   
http://www.academia.edu/1561832/Sicoli-2011-Agency_and_Ideology_in_Language_Shift_and_Language_Maintenance .

Again, thanks to all,

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Woodbury [mailto:woodbury at austin.utexas.edu] 
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 3:34 PM
To: Mike Cahill
Cc: ENDANGERED-LANGUAGES-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Study on contrastive outcomes?

Roy Mitchell, now in Alaska, did a study of two Yup'ik villages very close-by on the Kuskokwim River, one of which had undergone very rapid language shift toward English and toward a cash economy, and the the other of which had maintained daily learning and use of Yup'ik and of a subsistence life style.

Tony


On 1/7/13 3:43 PM, Mike Cahill wrote:
> Does anyone know of a study of the sociolinguistic situation of two different languages, one viable and the other endangered, where the two language situations have nearly identical external pressures on both speech communities, yet their language viability outcomes are quite different? The languages would probably be in the same geographical area. I've got a candidate case, and was wondering how unique this might be in the literature.
>
> Mike Cahill
>

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