Upper Sorbian language policy in education : bringing the language back, or bringing It forward? / Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska
"This book deals with the tension between a strategy of language maintenance (protecting and reinforcing the language where it is still spoken by community members) and a strategy of language revitalization (opening up access to the language to all interested people and encouraging new domains...
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| Superior document: | Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2023 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Boston : Brill, 2023 ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
Language Revitalisation and Language Development ; 1. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Language maintenance and language revitalisation: theoretical perspectives and research context
- The sociocultural context of the Upper Sorbian language and community situation
- Research design and methodology
- Building walls: the Catholic Upper Sorbian "core" community
- Divided worlds: relations between students and their consequences for language revitalisation
- Potential new speakers of Upper Sorbian - language ideologies at school
- Strategy of sustaining the minority language: maintenance versus revitalisation.