Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages

Abstract

1. Introduction 2. Maintenace and Loss of Minority Languages: Introductory Remarks (by Fase, Willem) 3. Perspectives 4. Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Language Contact, Maintenance and Loss: Towards a Multifacet Theory (by Clyne, Michael) 5. Sociopolitical Aspects of Language Maintenance and Loss: Towards a Typology of Minority Language Situations (by Edwards, John) 6. Linguistic Minorities and Language Policies: Four Case Studies (by Paulston, Christina Bratt) 7. I. Various Approaches Linguistic Studies 8. On Misunderstandings in a Non-Stabilised Situation (by Boeschoten, Hendrik) 9. Some Aspects of Language Attrition in Turkish Families in the Netherlands (by Huls, Erica) 10. A Domain Approach to the Turkish Vocabulary of Bilingual Turkish Children in the Netherlands (by Schaufeli, Anneli) 11. From the Typewriter of A.L.: A Case Study in Language Loss (by Jaspaert, Koen) 12. Some Linguistic Consequences of the Shift from Swedish to Finnish in Finland (by Tandefelt, Marika) 13. II. Various Approaches Sociological Studies 14. Ethnolinguistic Vitality Beliefs and Language Maintenance and Loss (by Allard, Real) 15. Convergence and Divergence: Two Cases of Language Shift in Morocco (by Bentahila, Abdelai) 16. Language Maintenance and Shift: Problems of Measurement (by Vries, John de) 17. Ethnolinguistic Vitality and the Bilingual Development of Minority and Majority Group Students (by Landry, Rodrigue) 18. Language Shift in India: Issues and Implications (by Pandharipande, Rajeshwari V.) 19. Minority Languages as Core Values of Ethnic Cultures: A Study of Maintenance and Erosion of Polish, Welsh, and Chinese Languages in Australia (by Smolicz, Jerzy J.) 20. Agencies of Language Reproduction in Celtic Societies (by Williams, Colin H.) 21. III. Various Approaches Descriptive Studies 22. Language Competence and Use among Coastal Kadazan Children: A Survey Report (by Lasimbang, Rita) 23. Some Problems of Linguistic Minorities in Japan (by Miyawaki, Hiroyuki) 24. The Hawaiian Model for the Revitalization of Native Minority Cultures and Languages (by Niedzielski, Henry Z.) 25. Minority Language Maintenance and Learning as Instruments for Improving the Status of the Minority Group (by Miseska Tomic, Olga) 26. Prospects 27. Conference Summary (by Fishman, Joshua A.)