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ERIC Number: ED434531
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1999-Jun
Pages: 437
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ISSN: ISSN-1023-2044
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Les langues minoritaires en contexte; Minderheitensprachen im Kontext (Minority Languages in Context).
Gross, Anna-Alice Dazzi, Ed.; Mondada, Lorenza, Ed.
Bulletin suisse de linguistique applique, v69 n1-2 Jun 1999
Articles in Italian, English, French, and German address issues in minority languages and minority language groups. They include: "The Role of Italian in Some Changes in Walser Morphosyntax" (article in Italian); "Compensatory Linguistic Strategies in the Gradual Death Process of a Minority Language: Evidence from Some Dying Dialects of Basque"; "Cornish Lexicography in the Twentieth Century: Standardisation and Divergence"; "The Standardisation of Papiamentu: New Trends, Problems and Perspectives"; "Standardisation of Transnational Minority Languages in Asia: Lisu and Lahu"; "Grisons Romansch: Planning for Standardisation" (article in French); "Language Planning Project-SPELL" (article in German); "Language Standardization Seen from Minority and Majority Perspectives: Japanese Examples" (article in German); "The Occitan Language in the Aran Valley"; "Multilingual Communication from the Perspective of an Uncommon Language: Sorbian in Everyday Life in Lausitz" (article in German); "Literary Reactions to the Pressure of Purist Norms" (article in German); "'Linguistic Minority,' A Basic Conception of Swiss Language Politics" (article in German); "Where Does the Notion of Minority Language Begin and End? From Dialect Families to 'Neo-languages'" (article in French); "Language Awareness Activities and Introduction to Languages at School: How to Take Minority Languages into Account" (article in French); "Bilingualism or Bilingual Support? Ethnic Minority Bilingual Children in English Primary Schools"; "On the Efficiency of Immersion Classes in the Federal Romansch Schools in Switzerland: An Empirical Study" (article in German); "A Step Toward Questioning the Linguistic Statute of Our Community" (article in French); "Reactions to the Implementation of Projects with Bilingual Classes Beginning at Kindergarten and Elementary School Levels" (article in German); "Metalinguistic Reflection in a Minority Language: The Case of Creole for Reunion Island Children in France" (article in French); "The Speech Therapy Session as a Meeting Place for Majority and Minority Languages" (article in French); "Minority Languages: A View from Research on 'Language Crossing'"; "What Room for Freedom in the Linguistic Choices of the Portuguese Minority in Andorra?" (article in French); "Language Adoption: The Influence of Minority Languages on the Majority, or: Which Competencies in the Minority Languages Do Majority Speakers Have?" (article in German); "Taking the Floor: The Globalization and the Transformation of Identity-Related Discourse in a Linguistic Minority" (article in French); "Management of the Asymmetries and Effects of Minorisation in Multilingual Scientific Discussions" (article in French); "The Future of English in Switzerland: A Majority/Minority Problem?"; and "Europanto: About a So-Called European Pidgin" (article in French). (MSE/JLR/DMK)
Descriptors: Basque, Cultural Context, Elementary Secondary Education, English, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Italian, Japanese, Language Maintenance, Language Minorities, Language Research, Language Role, Linguistic Theory, Multilingualism, Pidgins, Regional Dialects, School Role, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Universite de Neuchatel, Institute de Linguistique, Espace Louis-Agassiz 1, CH-2000 Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Publication Type: Collected Works - Serials
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Language: FrenchEnglishGermanItalian
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Authoring Institution: Association Suisse de Linguistique Appliquee, Neuchatel (Switzerland).; Neuchatel Univ. (Switzerland). Inst. de Linguistique.
Identifiers - Location: Andorra; Asia; Switzerland; United Kingdom
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