Political and Economic Obstacles of Minority Language Maintenance
- Over the past decades, problems related to linguistic minorities and their well-being, as well as to minority languages and their maintenance, have developed as an independent branch of minority studies. Studies of language in society and sociolinguistics, strategies of minority language survival and the empowerment of their speakers have produced a considerable output of case studies and theoretical writings.In this multifaceted field of investigation, language use, language practices, language policies and language politics represent interrelated aspects of social and linguistic relations that cannot be meaningfully addressed from a point of view of one scientific discipline only. This is specially the case when one wants to understand processes of language loss and maintenance, or the revitalization and empowerment of a language community. Such processes are linguistic expressions of complex social settings, and reflect group and individual identities that in turn express changing systems of collective values, human networks, fashions and social practices.
Author: | Janne SaarikiviGND, Heiko F. MartenORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-115192 |
ISSN: | 1617-5247 |
Parent Title (English): | Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe |
Publisher: | European Centre for Minority Issues |
Place of publication: | Flensburg |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2012 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2023/02/15 |
Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
GND Keyword: | Mehrsprachigkeit; Minderheitensprache; Sozialer Wandel; Spracherhaltung; Sprachpolitik |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 1 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 16 |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
Open Access?: | ja |
Linguistics-Classification: | Soziolinguistik |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 International |