Towards a Threshold Theory of Minority Language Survival.
This paper examines the relevance of thresholds in the context of language shift and the conditions needed for a minority language to survive in the long run. After introducing a few basic concepts, it develops a static and dynamic time-allocation model of language use and vitality. Thresholds for minority language survival are defined as a function of language attitudes, the percentage of minority language speakers, and expectations-based adjustment to the observed evolution of minority language vitality. The model is used to suggest five different types of policy for minority language survival. Copyright 1992 by WWZ and Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag AG
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1992
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Authors: | Grin, Francois |
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Kyklos. - Wiley Blackwell, ISSN 0023-5962. - Vol. 45.1992, 1, p. 69-97
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Wiley Blackwell |
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