Upper Sorbian language education
When community language maintenance practices disregard top-down revitalisation strategies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12112433 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska (0000-0001-7256-8226, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland, corresponding author), Cordula Ratajczak (Serbski institut/Sorbisches Institut, Bautzen/Budyšin, Germany) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-79 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Culture and Curriculum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0790-8318 • E-ISSN: 1747-7573 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07908318.2019.1630424 |
| OpenAlex | W2950578047 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
The article studies minority language policy in the situation of an internal division within a speech community. It is based on the example of the Upper Sorbs – a Slavic minority in Germany. The division within this community is based on language use, the level of assimilation and religion. The Catholic Upper Sorbs have maintained intergenerational transmission of the language, and have a strong identity based on language use and participation in religious life. Most of the Upper Sorbian Protestants have shifted to German. Hence, the Catholic Upper Sorbs perceive themselves as ‘real’ Sorbs and – despite the decreasing number of speakers in their community – their strategy of language maintenance is through isolating themselves from German speakers. The official Sorbian language policy includes language revitalisation to increase the number of Sorbian speakers by creating new speakers of this language through bilingual education. We discuss the conflicting situation when the institutional minority language revitalisation strategy does not fit the internal ‘core’ community's language maintenance policy. The research was carried out at one of the Upper Sorbian schools with sociolinguistic observations and interviews with pupils from Sorbian-speaking families and with Sorbian learners, and on Sorbian language research revitalisation efforts
German · Language policy · Linguistics · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Pedagogy · Polish · Political science · Slavic languages · Sociology · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Multilingual Education and Policy
Language Planning
Communities of Practice
Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization
Language Policy Evaluation and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
European Multilingualism
Learning Upper Sorbian. The problems with minority language education for non-native pupils in the Upper Sorbian Grammar School in Bautzen/Budyšin
International journal of the sociology of language 109
Haut- et bas-sorabe une cohabitation linguistique difficile
Les protestants sorabes
Whose Language Is It? Struggles for Language Ownership in an Irish Language Classroom
New speakers of minority languages
Research methods in Sociolinguistics
New speakers, new language
Lower Sorbian - twice a minority language
Ideology, affect, and socialization in language shift and revitalization
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |