Nancy C Dorian
Biographic Data
| ID | 119095 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy C Dorian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy C |
| FAMILY NAME | Dorian |
| SIGNATURE | DORIAN N C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bryn Mawr College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Endangered Languages and Language Death
Language death is familiar historically from the extinction of attested languages, but it continues as a contemporary phenomenon in a large and increasing number of cases. Features of the external setting, such as political and demographic subordination, disfavor transmission, as do negative attitudes within the speaker community arising from psychosocial subordination. Imperfect transmission gives rise to marked structural change in the declinin…
Lexical Erosion
Lexical erosion refers to reduction and loss in the lexical resources of a language. A certain amount of lexical loss is a normal feature of language change, especially when changes in lifeways or technology result in the abandonment of some traditional occupations, pastimes, or earlier technologies. In English, for example, the terminology of falconry, once widely in use, is known today only to historians and avocational falconers. Equally unfam…
Small languages and small language communities 70
Documentation and responsibility
Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Language Death
The straw that broke the language's back: Language shift in the Upper Necaxa Valley of Mexico
This article examines the factors that have led to a shift to Spanish in the Upper Necaxa Totonac communities of east-central Mexico. Despite the fact that Spanish and Totonac have been in contact since before the eighteenth century, the shift to the majority language has only occurred in the past four decades. I will show that this shift resulted from the combination of long-standing negative attitudes towards indigenous cultures with new social…
Age and speaker skills in receding languages: How Far Do Community Evaluations and Linguists' Evaluations Agree
The assumption that age will show a correlation with proficiency in the verbal performance of receding-language speakers often has a general validity where group profiles are considered, but exceptions on the individual level can be striking. Individual speaker profiles offered by Aikhenvald for a contemporary Tariana-speaking community and by Bloomfield for the Menomini-speaking community of his time are reviewed in this light and compared with …
Is there an educational advantage to speaking Irish? An investigation of the relationship between education and ability to speak Irish
In this article new findings are outlined that show a relationship between ability to speak Irish and level of education. The authors' statistical analysis of International Social Survey Programme data from a survey in 2003 on national identity reveals that Irish speakers have been more likely than non Irish speakers to attend university (or equivalent). This likelihood is strongest amongst people who were born in the 1950s and 1960s, and more pa…
Reversing Language Shift: The Social Identity and Role of Scottish Gaelic Learners (Belfast Studies in Language, Culture and Politics) by Alasdair MacCaluim
Negative Borrowing in an Indigenouslanguage Shift to the Dominant National Language
Receding languages in contact with an expanding language are susceptible to various forms of transfer, including covert transfer or negative borrowing, the elimination of features not shared by the expanding language. Retention of two Scottish Gaelic grammatical features with English parallels and of two grammatical features without English parallel is compared in the Gaelic of bilingual speakers across a 55-year age-and-proficiency continuum. Bo…
Commentary: Broadening the Rhetorical and Descriptive Horizons in Endangered‐Language Linguistics
Diglossia and the simplification of linguistic space
Dialectology
Dialect Levelling in Limburg: Structural and Sociolinguistic Aspects
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Linguistic Anthropology
Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory
Language ideologies refers to the representation, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. This collection of essays examines definitions and conceptions of language in a wide range of settings, focusing on how such defining activity organizes individuals, institutions, and the relationships between them. The contributors look at language and its role in such fundamental social institutions…
Western language ideologies and small-language prospects
It might be said with a certain metaphoric license that languages are seldom admired to death but are frequently despised to death. That is, it's relatively rare for a language to become so exclusively tied to prestigious persons and high-prestige behaviors that ordinary people become too much in awe of it to use it or are prevented by language custodians from doing so. By contrast, it's fairly common for a language to become so exclusively assoc…
Sociolinguistics
Contrastive Sociolinguistics
Telling the Monolinguals from the Bilinguals: Unrealistic Code Choices in Direct Quotations within Scottish Gaelic Narratives
Among the Gaelic-English bilinguals of East Sutherland, Scotland, code choice is made above all according to interlocutor. When the chosen code is Gaelic, the community norm for rendering direct quotations within a narrative is to produce them in Gaelic, regardless of which language was used originally and regardless of whether the quoted person was actually capable of speaking Gaelic. Examples are given to illustrate this quotational norm, but f…
Multilingualism
Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language
Preface. 1. An Integrated Approach to Literacy. 2. Talking About Literacy. 3. The Social Basis of Literacy. 4. Literacy Embedded in Language. 5. Languages and Literacies. 6. Configurations of Language. 7. Writing Systems and Other Notations. 8. Points in History. 9. The Roots of Literacy. 10. Emergent Literacy. 11. Public Definitions of Literacy. 12. School Practices. 13. Adults and World Literacy. 14. Some Implications of an Ecological View. Not…
Legal and Ethical Issues in Surreptitious Recording
Language Planning in Multilingual Contexts: Policies, Communities, and Schools in Luxembourg
Sharing Expertise and Experience in Support of Small Languages
Purism vs. compromise in language revitalization and language revival
Conservative attitudes toward loanwords and toward change in grammar often hamper efforts to revitalize endangered languages (Tiwi, Australia); and incompatible conservatisms can separate educated revitalizers, interested in historicity, from remaining speakers interested in locally authentic idiomaticity (Irish). Native-speaker conservatism is likely to constitute a barrier to coinage (Gaelic, Scotland), and unrealistically severe older-speaker …
Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death
Languages die for political, economic and cultural reasons, and can disappear remarkably quickly. Between ten and fifty per cent of all languages currently spoken can be considered endangered, but it is only in the past ten years or so that due importance has been given to the study of contracting and dying languages. This volume represents the first attempt to give a broad overview of current research in a developing field, and to examine some o…
Grammatical Change in a Dying Dialect
The dying East Sutherland dialect of Scottish Gaelic shows grammatical change currently in progress in two syntactic environments, the passive and the case system. The rate of change has been rapid enough to show clear differences between the usage of the oldest and the youngest fluent speakers available, a span of just over 40 years. This permits the consideration of questions about the direction of change, the processes of change, and the rate …
A Substitute Name System in the Scottish Highlands1
The high incidence of identical names among Gaelic speakers in East Sutherland leads to the use of "by-names" almost to the exclusion of official names. Several varieties of by-names are highly offensive. Appropriate use of the offensive varieties demands an intimate knowledge of the communities' social structure available only to their members; by-name misuse is consequently a source of social tension between Gaelic speakers and English speakers…
The Fate of Morphological Complexity in Language Death: Evidence from East Sutherland Gaelic
Simplification in structure, and also confluence between the local-language structure and the prestige-language structure, are usually predicted in language death as in pidginization. For a dying Scottish Gaelic dialect, speakers representing a broad proficiency continuum were tested in the two most excessively complex morphological structures the dialect offers, the noun plural and the gerund. The forms supplied by the semi-speakers at the botto…
Varieties of Variation in a Very Small Place: Social Homogeneity, Prestige Norms, and Linguistic Variation
It has been widely assumed that linguistic heterogeneity reflects social heterogeneity, with differences in the use of linguistic variants corresponding to social groupings and sensitive to social self-presentation in terms of one or more prestige norms. This assumption is challenged by patterns of variation within the former fishing communities of East Sutherland, Scotland. In these Gaelic-speaking communities exceptionally homogeneous single-vi…
The Problem of the Semi-Speaker in Language Death
The value of language-maintenance efforts which are unlikely to succeed
Article The value of language-maintenance efforts which are unlikely to succeed was published on January 1, 1987 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1987, issue 68)
Commentary: Broadening the Rhetorical and Descriptive Horizons in Endangered‐Language Linguistics
Linguistic lag as an ethnic marker
Language has long been recognized as an important marker of ethnic identity. The identification is usually made in terms of some specific language or dialect, the use of which coincides more or less well with the boundaries of some particular ethnic group. This relationship obtains perfectly in present-day East Sutherland (Scotland), where the East Sutherland Gaelic mother tongue is almost the sole marker of fisherfolk ethnic identity. It can be …
Language Shift in Community and Individual: The Phenomenon of the Laggard Semi-Speaker
Article Language Shift in Community and Individual: The Phenomenon of the Laggard Semi-Speaker was published on January 1, 1980 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1980, issue 25)
The straw that broke the language's back: Language shift in the Upper Necaxa Valley of Mexico
This article examines the factors that have led to a shift to Spanish in the Upper Necaxa Totonac communities of east-central Mexico. Despite the fact that Spanish and Totonac have been in contact since before the eighteenth century, the shift to the majority language has only occurred in the past four decades. I will show that this shift resulted from the combination of long-standing negative attitudes towards indigenous cultures with new social…
Maintenance and loss of same-meaning structures in language death
1980). Maintenance and loss of same-meaning structures in language death. WORD: Vol. 31, Studies Presented to Professor Robert A. Fowkes on the Occasion of his Retirement, 1978, pp. 39-45
Documentation and responsibility
A Hierarchy of Morphophonemic Decay in Scottish Gaelic Language Death: The Differential Failure of Lenition
Age and speaker skills in receding languages: How Far Do Community Evaluations and Linguists' Evaluations Agree
The assumption that age will show a correlation with proficiency in the verbal performance of receding-language speakers often has a general validity where group profiles are considered, but exceptions on the individual level can be striking. Individual speaker profiles offered by Aikhenvald for a contemporary Tariana-speaking community and by Bloomfield for the Menomini-speaking community of his time are reviewed in this light and compared with …
Reversing Language Shift: The Social Identity and Role of Scottish Gaelic Learners (Belfast Studies in Language, Culture and Politics) by Alasdair MacCaluim
Diglossia and the simplification of linguistic space
Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory
Language ideologies refers to the representation, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. This collection of essays examines definitions and conceptions of language in a wide range of settings, focusing on how such defining activity organizes individuals, institutions, and the relationships between them. The contributors look at language and its role in such fundamental social institutions…
Sharing Expertise and Experience in Support of Small Languages
Small languages and small language communities: News, Notes, and Comments 4
Article Small languages and small language communities: news, notes, and comments 4 was published on January 1, 1990 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1990, issue 82)
A Substitute Name System in the Scottish Highlands1
The high incidence of identical names among Gaelic speakers in East Sutherland leads to the use of "by-names" almost to the exclusion of official names. Several varieties of by-names are highly offensive. Appropriate use of the offensive varieties demands an intimate knowledge of the communities' social structure available only to their members; by-name misuse is consequently a source of social tension between Gaelic speakers and English speakers…
Grammatical Change in a Dying Dialect
The dying East Sutherland dialect of Scottish Gaelic shows grammatical change currently in progress in two syntactic environments, the passive and the case system. The rate of change has been rapid enough to show clear differences between the usage of the oldest and the youngest fluent speakers available, a span of just over 40 years. This permits the consideration of questions about the direction of change, the processes of change, and the rate …
The Problem of the Semi-Speaker in Language Death
A Hierarchy of Morphophonemic Decay in Scottish Gaelic Language Death: The Differential Failure of Lenition
The Fate of Morphological Complexity in Language Death: Evidence from East Sutherland Gaelic
Simplification in structure, and also confluence between the local-language structure and the prestige-language structure, are usually predicted in language death as in pidginization. For a dying Scottish Gaelic dialect, speakers representing a broad proficiency continuum were tested in the two most excessively complex morphological structures the dialect offers, the noun plural and the gerund. The forms supplied by the semi-speakers at the botto…
Maintenance and loss of same-meaning structures in language death
1980). Maintenance and loss of same-meaning structures in language death. WORD: Vol. 31, Studies Presented to Professor Robert A. Fowkes on the Occasion of his Retirement, 1978, pp. 39-45
Language Shift in Community and Individual: The Phenomenon of the Laggard Semi-Speaker
Article Language Shift in Community and Individual: The Phenomenon of the Laggard Semi-Speaker was published on January 1, 1980 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1980, issue 25)
Linguistic lag as an ethnic marker
Language has long been recognized as an important marker of ethnic identity. The identification is usually made in terms of some specific language or dialect, the use of which coincides more or less well with the boundaries of some particular ethnic group. This relationship obtains perfectly in present-day East Sutherland (Scotland), where the East Sutherland Gaelic mother tongue is almost the sole marker of fisherfolk ethnic identity. It can be …
Language Death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Bud B. Khleif, Language, ethnicity, and education in Wales. (Contributions to the Sociology of Language, 28.) The Hague: Mouton, 1980. Pp. xv + 331
Angeles."Of the over 2500 terms I have collected in almost nine years, fully 75% of the expressions represented in the lexicon are known to black teenagers, and approximately 50% of those terms are claimed as active words and phrases in teenage vocabularies" (207).Folb combines the use of "Dialectology" and "The Ethnography of Speaking" to produce this work.And, because language serves the needs of its immediate users, her analysis provides clear…
Languages of Scotland
Minority Languages Today: A Selection from the Papers Read at the First International Conference on Minority Languages, Held at Glasgow University from 8 to 13 September 1980
Contributors describe the status of such languages as Scottish and Irish Gaelic, Welsh, Faroese, Frisian, Luxemborgian triglossia, Sardinian bilingualism and English sign language, and suggest common factors in determining the renewal or survival of minority languages
The Decline of the Celtic Languages
Abrupt Transmission Failure in Obsolescing Languages: How Sudden the ‘Tip’ to the Dominant Language in Communities and Families
Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 72-83
Spracherwerb - Sprachkontakt - Sprachkonflikt
The value of language-maintenance efforts which are unlikely to succeed
Article The value of language-maintenance efforts which are unlikely to succeed was published on January 1, 1987 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1987, issue 68)
Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death
Languages die for political, economic and cultural reasons, and can disappear remarkably quickly. Between ten and fifty per cent of all languages currently spoken can be considered endangered, but it is only in the past ten years or so that due importance has been given to the study of contracting and dying languages. This volume represents the first attempt to give a broad overview of current research in a developing field, and to examine some o…
The Modern Stranger: On Language and Membership
Small languages and small language communities: News, Notes, and Comments 2
Article Small languages and small language communities: news, notes, and comments 2 was published on January 1, 1989 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1989, issue 78)
Small languages and small language communities: News, Notes, and Comments 1
Article Small languages and small language communities: news, notes, and comments 1 was published on January 1, 1989 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1989, issue 76)
Language Attrition in Progress
Bilinguality and Bilingualism
Small languages and small language communities: News, Notes, and Comments 4
Article Small languages and small language communities: news, notes, and comments 4 was published on January 1, 1990 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1990, issue 82)
Small languages and small language communities: News, Notes, and Comments 5
Article Small languages and small language communities: news, notes, and comments 5 was published on January 1, 1990 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1990, issue 86)
The Death of the Irish Language: A Qualified Obituary
Linguistics (65 works) · Philosophy (60 works) · Sociology (45 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (26 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (26 works) · History (23 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (21 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Linguistics and Cultural Studies (12 works)