Minority Languages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22370629 |
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| Authors | Bernadette O''Rourke (0000-0002-1556-4162, University of Glasgow, corresponding author), Bernadette O'Rourke |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 1-4 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118786093.iela0272 |
| OpenAlex | W4247464590 |
| ISBN | 9781118786093 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
In the globalized world, minority language speakers often feel the pressures of language contact with economically, politically, and socially dominant languages. However, despite these pressures, many minority language communities continue to maintain or reclaim their languages as active agents through everyday interactions. Minority language research now takes account of speaker mobilities and the more fluid nature of the virtual and digital communities. This has led to a rethinking of existing frameworks to better understand language maintenance and shift in minority communities within the broader framework of language diversity and multilingualism. There has been a move away from the classical macro models, used to understand why minority languages are maintained or not, to more micro‐level analyses of beliefs, ideologies, and situated practices of minority language speakers as a means of capturing the diversity across different minority language settings. There has also been a move away from a focus on ethnonational models in which much previous work has been based on a rethinking within the fame of sociolinguistics of mobility, which reflects the new social order in which minority language research can be understood
Comprehension approach · Language education · Language policy · Linguistics · Macro · Minority language · Multilingualism · Pedagogy · Situated · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Sociology of language · Anthropology · Computer Science · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Multilingual Education and Policy · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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