Language Maintenance and Language Shift as Strategies of Social Reproduction.

O Riagain, Padraig

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ERIC Number: EJ532596

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Publication Date: 1994

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Language Maintenance and Language Shift as Strategies of Social Reproduction.

O Riagain, Padraig

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, v15 n2-3 p179-97 1994

Discusses strategies of social mobility involving education, occupational or residential change, and migration as well as the implications for language behavior of these strategies. The article assesses current theories of language maintenance and shift, drawing on network concepts and referring to change in an Irish-speaking community in southwest Ireland. (35 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Census Figures, Change Strategies, Cultural Context, Diachronic Linguistics, Economic Factors, English, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Irish, Language Maintenance, Monolingualism, Official Languages, Sociolinguistics, Uncommonly Taught Languages

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Ireland

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