Transmitting minority languages : complementary reversing language shift strategies / Michael Hornsby, Wilson McLeod, editors.
Hornsby, Michael, 1965- editor.; McLeod, Wilson, editor.
2022
P119.315
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Title Transmitting minority languages : complementary reversing language shift strategies / Michael Hornsby, Wilson McLeod, editors.
ISBN 9783030879105 (electronic bk.)
3030879100 (electronic bk.)
9783030879099 (print)
3030879097
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87910-5
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 376 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-87910-5 doi
Call Number P119.315
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.7
Summary This book gives fresh insight into the diverse ways in which the transmission of minority and heritage languages is carried out in a range of sociolinguistic contexts. When traditional modes of intergenerational transmission begin to break down, minority language and diaspora communities resort to other modes of transmission, out of necessity, to complement traditional mechanisms and secure language maintenance. This volume brings together a broad range of studies of these alternative modes of transmission, examining the complex and diverse practical, ideological and personal challenges that arise in different settings. Beyond addressing the dynamics of language use within the home and family, the book also emphasises the importance of the participation of the minority community itself in language and cultural transmission. These mechanisms and initiatives, sometimes overlooked or dismissed in the academic literature, will prove to be essential in maintaining and ensuring the survival of minority and heritage languages into the 21st century and beyond. The twelve chapters in the book are divided into four sections (intergenerational transmission; transmission in post-traditional families; alternatives to 'traditional' transmission; and transmission in diasporic contexts), and the language contexts, both minoritised and diasporic, which are discussed include Basque, Breton, Galician, Guernesais, Irish, Māori, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Sorbian and Spanish. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language acquisition, heritage language maintenance and revitalization, and language policy and planning. Michael Hornsby is Head of the Centre for Celtic Studies in the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He is the author of Revitalizing Minority Languages: New Speakers of Breton, Yiddish and Lemko (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and co-editor of New Speakers of Minority Languages: Linguistic Ideologies and Practices (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Wilson McLeod is Professor of Gaelic at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the author of Gaelic in Scotland: Policies, Movements, Ideologies (2020) and co-editor of Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
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Added Author Hornsby, Michael, 1965- editor.
McLeod, Wilson, editor.
Series Palgrave studies in minority languages and communities, 2947-5899
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I: Intergenerational transmission
Chapter 2. Tús Maith, A Good Start: Intervention and Intergenerational Transmission in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht
Chapter 3. Family language policy in the face of a shrinking community language: Gaelic on the Isle of Lewis
Part II: Transmission in post-traditional families
Chapter 4. The transmission of Breton in the family: the effect of family rupture and recomposition
Chapter 5. The importance of wider community stance for Irish-speaking families in the Gaeltacht
Part III: Alternatives to 'traditional' transmission
Chapter 6. Native and non-native speakers school language practices and transmission in Upper Lusatia
Chapter 7. Kura Whakarauora: Flax-roots language planning for families in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Chapter 8. Peer-to-peer language transmission among adults
Chapter 9. New ways of looking at minority language transmission from the Basque context
Chapter 10. Transmission of Breton among immersion-school students: the impact of home language
Part IV: Transmission in diasporic contexts. Chapter 11. Comparing family language policy in Sweden, Cyprus and Estonia: efforts and choices among Russian-speaking families
Chapter 12. Effective family language policies and intergenerational transmission of minority languages: Parental language management from autochthonous and diasporic contexts
Chapter 13. 'We had to make a choice': Language management in Italian transnational adoptive
Chapter 14. Conclusion
Index.

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