Revitalizing minority languages : new speakers of Breton, Yiddish and Lemko /

Revitalizing minority languages : new speakers of Breton, Yiddish and Lemko /

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Author / Creator:	Hornsby, Michael, 1965- author.
Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Description:	xiv, 168 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Palgrave studies in minority languages and communities Palgrave studies in minority languages and communities.
Subject:	Linguistic minorities. Language revival. Sociolinguistics. Language revival. Linguistic minorities. Sociolinguistics.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10379919

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ISBN:	9781137498793 (hardback) 113749879X (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"In recent decades the 'death' of minority languages has attracted the attention of journalists, scholars and the general public and now features in various discourses about the decline of ecological and cultural diversity due to globalization. Many minority languages are undergoing revitalization (mainly through educational initiatives) and, as a result, some of these languages can demonstrate a slowing down in the rate of decline in the number of speakers. This has led to the appearance, in many instances, of so-called 'new' speakers, that is speakers who have acquired a minority language outside the traditional conduits of family and/or community. This book examines the background to this phenomenon and demonstrates how new speakers have appeared among Breton, Yiddish and Lemko speakers, all of whom demonstrate similar struggles and successes in their attempts to use their adopted languages in a meaningful way. "--

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Summary:	New speakers are an increasingly important aspect of the revitalization of minority languages since, in some cases, they can make up the majority of the language community in question. This volume examines this phenomenon from the viewpoint of three minority languages: Breton, Yiddish and Lemko.
Physical Description:	xiv, 168 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781137498793 113749879X