Article: Ethnolinguistic vitality, prejudice, and family language transmission

Article: Ethnolinguistic vitality under a new political ...
The Journal of Social Psychology;  December 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Rosenthal (1981) used the concept ethnolinguistic vitality to designate the sociostructural ... amp; Johnson, 1981). Low ethnolinguistic vitality, on the other hand, does not ... perceptions of a weak or weakening ethnolinguistic vitality can stimulate the group to ethnic ...

Article: Maintenance of Slovene in Carinthia (Austria): Grounds for ...
Canadian Slavonic Papers;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... elders with respect to the "ethnolinguistic vitality" of Slovene, as against four ... The conclusion: minority "ethnolinguistic vitality" attitudes, which are crucial for language maintenance, suggest optimism; this must ...

Article: Linguists and language maintenance: Pasifika ...
Oceanic Linguistics;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... whether linguists can contribute to language maintenance efforts. It consists of an analysis ... what linguists can contribute to language maintenance. INTRODUCTION There are two sections ... can do, if anything, to help the language maintenance efforts. The question becomes all ...

Article: Language maintenance and loss in preschool-age ...
Communication Disorders Quarterly;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... assigned them to one of two groups: language maintenance and language loss. The authors ... grammatical errors, whereas the language maintenance group performed better on Spanish ... and other--variables influence language maintenance or language loss. LANGUAGE LOSS ...

Article: Language Maintenance Revisited: An Australian ...
Bilingual Research Journal;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Abstract Language maintenance has been an issue debated whenever languages come into contact ... sociolinguistic studies, including those focusing on the idea of language maintenance (LM) and shift. Language shift and its ramifications are ...

Article: Language maintenance among the children of ...
Southwest Journal of Linguistics;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... COMMUNITY SURVEY (PUMS ACS). The authors focus on children in particular, given their central importance in language maintenance, to compare geographic variation in an attempt to better understand the impact of region on language shift ...

Article: Issues of language maintenance and education of ...
Childhood Education;  August 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... bilingualism in aboriginal communities in India and of the language shift among the young. Is the degree of language maintenance higher for aboriginal languages with available written scripts and printed materials, as compared to those which ...