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The Effect of Minority Group Vitality upon Its Sociopsychological Behaviour and Strategies. Part I: Theoretical Framework.
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Saint-Blancat, Chantal – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1984
Argues that objective conditions are always interacting with widespread "subjective definitions" to explain the variable capacities of linguistic minorities. Looks at the hypothesis formed by Giles, Bourhis, and Taylor in their theory of language in ethnic group relations as it relates to the multilingual context of the Valdotan…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Diglossia, Ethnic Groups, French
The Effect of Minority Group Vitality upon Its Sociopsychological Behaviour and Strategies. Part II: An Empirical Study on the Valdotan Minority.
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Saint-Blancat, Chantal – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1985
Presents the data from a study of the Valdotan community in northern Italy which examined, according to Smelser's model of social and cultural change, the Valdotans' level of ethnolinguistic identification. Re-interprets this data according to Giles, Bourhis, and Taylor's theory of the interaction between the ethnolinguistic vitality and the…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, French, Language Role, Minority Groups