Transmitting Minority Languages
Complementary Reversing Language Shift Strategies
Michael Hornsby editor Wilson McLeod editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Published:14th Apr '22
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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.
“This edited volume presents alternative transmission models, bringing together individual and collective language transmission strategies across different geographic areas and endangerment levels. … Transmitting Minority Languages engages with post-vernacularity and both intra- and intergenerational transmission from community and critical outlooks, posing the insufficiency of census data and macro approaches. … With this book, the reader will be able to rethink the social valuation of minoritized languages usage and the inherent diversity to their transmission practices and discourses.” (Daniel Amarelo, Language in Society, Vol. 53 (3), June, 2024)
ISBN: 9783030879099
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376 pages
1st ed. 2022