Sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives on maintenance and loss of minority languages
By: Tom Ammerlaan ... [et al.] (eds.).
Contributors: Ammerlaan, Tom.
Publisher: Waxmann
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Münster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Language attrition -- Congresses.; Language obsolescence -- Congresses.; Linguistic minorities -- Congresses.; Sociolinguistics -- Congresses.; Language maintenance -- Congresses.; Tujia (Chinese people) -- Languages -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Theories on maintenance and loss of minority languages.
Notes: Volume 2 of the proceedings of the International Conference on Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages; the first vol. entitled: Theories on maintenance and loss of minority languages : towards a more integrated explanatory framework.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Language maintenance, shift, and loss: work in progress / Tom Ammerlaan, Madeleine Hulsen, Heleen Strating & Kutlay Yağmur; title: The status of immigrant minority groups and immigrant minority languages in Dutch secondary schools: a municipal study on language vitality / Jeroen Aarssen, Peter Broeder & Guus Extra; title: A minority language as mother tongue or father tongue: does it make a difference? / Sally Boyd; title: Language shift and change in a Walser dialect in Italy / Silvia Dal Negro; title: "You still speak German?" Teenage language skills in a German-speaking community / Elizabeth de Kadt; title: Processes of language shift and loss: evidence from Basque / Agurtzane Elordui; title: Literacy and language ideologies in a European situation of language loss / Thomas T. Field; title: Language shift and the demise of indigenous knowledge / Margaret Florey; title: Code-switching and language shift / Penelope Gardner-Chloros; title: Towards predicting ethnolinguistic vitality: a sociocultural approach / A. Sue Harris Russell; title: The interaction between language shift and language processing: some first data on three generations of Dutch immigrants in New Zealand / Madeleine Hulsen, Kees de Bot & Bert Weltens; title: Language shift in Istria: the cases of Istro-Romance and Istro-Rumene / Jens-Eberhard Jahn; title: Tales of L1 attrition: evidence from pre-puberty children / Dorit Kaufman; title: Social determinants of language shift amongst ethnic minority groups: the role of self-assessment of L2 proficiency / Jetske Klatter-Folmer & Piet Van Avermaet; title: First language attrition in production skills and metalinguistic abilities in German-English and German-French bilinguals / Barbara Köpke & Jean-Luc Nespoulous; title: The beginnings of language loss in discourse: a case study of referentiality in American Lithuanian / Jolanta Macevichius; title: The maintenance of Punjabi and Urdu in Sheffield / Mike Reynolds & Mohammed Akram; title: Language use and language loss of German-Jewish refugees / Monika S. Schmid; title: The Yiddish enigma: ethnolinguistic vitality research into a 1000-year paradox / Carole A. Shaw & Itesh Sachdev; title: Iowa Dutch inflection: translations versus conversations / Caroline Smits; title: The relationship between subjective ethnolinguistic vitality perceptions and language maintenance in the Australian context: a critical appraisal / Kutlay Yağmur; title: Majority language spread versus minority language loss in China: a case study of Tujia / Minglang Zhou.