26.4900, Books: Revitalizing Minority Languages: Hornsby

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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 15:58:28
From: Nassima Bouchenak [Nassima.Bouchenak at palgrave.com]
Subject: Revitalizing Minority Languages: Hornsby

 


Title: Revitalizing Minority Languages 
Subtitle: New Speakers of Breton, Yiddish and Lemko 
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
	   http://www.palgrave.com
	

Book URL: http://bit.ly/1Smaeoo 


Author: Michael Hornsby

Hardback: ISBN:  9781137498793 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 58.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781137498793 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 95.00


Abstract:

In recent decades the 'death' of minority languages has attracted the attention of journalists, scholars and the general public and now features in various discourses about the decline of ecological and cultural diversity due to globalization. Many minority languages are undergoing revitalization (mainly through educational initiatives) and, as a result, some of these languages can demonstrate a slowing down in the rate of decline in the number of speakers. This has led to the appearance, in many instances, of so-called 'new' speakers, that is, speakers who have acquired a minority language outside the traditional conduits of family and/or community. This book examines the background to this phenomenon and investigates the mechanisms and processes by which new speakers have appeared in Breton, Yiddish and Lemko linguistic settings, all of whom demonstrate similar struggles and successes in their attempts to use their adopted languages in a meaningful way. 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Breton (bre)
                     Rusyn (rue)
                     Yiddish, Eastern (ydd)
                     Yiddish, Western (yih)


Written In: English  (eng)

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