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portada Small-Language Fates and Prospects: Lessons of Persistence and Change from Endangered Languages: Collected Essays
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Physical Book
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Publisher
Language
English
Pages
490
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
24.1 x 16.3 x 3.0 cm
Weight
0.88 kg.
ISBN13
9789004230514
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Small-Language Fates and Prospects: Lessons of Persistence and Change from Endangered Languages: Collected Essays

Nancy Dorian (Author) · Brill · Hardcover

Small-Language Fates and Prospects: Lessons of Persistence and Change from Endangered Languages: Collected Essays - Dorian, Nancy

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Synopsis "Small-Language Fates and Prospects: Lessons of Persistence and Change from Endangered Languages: Collected Essays"

In Small-language Fates and Prospects Nancy C. Dorian gathers findings from decades of documenting an endangered Scottish Gaelic dialect, presenting detailed evidence of contraction and loss but also recording a positive role for imperfect speakers. Retention of language skills undervalued by linguists but positively viewed by the community has supported the survival of local Gaelic-English bilingualism well beyond early predictions. Nonetheless, potent factors that threaten small-language survival everywhere have also operated here. Negative social attitudes towards the minority population, loss of a traditional occupation, the increasing impact of majority-culture ideologies, are recurrent phenomena in small-language settings. Maintenance or revitalization efforts pose special challenges under these circumstances, as does fieldwork itself when adverse sociohistorical forces have left very few fluent speakers.

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