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Trofimovich, Pavel; Turuševa, Larisa – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2020
This study explored the attitudes of ethnic Latvian listeners towards Latvian-Russian bilinguals. Fifty-seven ethnic Latvians completed an identity questionnaire to obtain estimates of their ethnic beliefs and rated the speech of eight Latvian-Russian bilinguals for personal traits, judged how well social and ethnic labels apply to bilinguals, and…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Self Concept, Indo European Languages, Russian
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Dilans, Gatis – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
What makes people, in shifting power positions of a post-independence period, plan on disusing an already known L2 or learn a new L2? What are the reasons for such shifts and what outcomes can, therefore, be predicted for the future of societal bilingualism surviving alongside ongoing efforts at monolingual unification in a newly independent…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Speech Communication, Bilingual Education, Monolingualism
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Romanov, Artemi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2000
Focuses on the language situation in the Russian diaspora in Latvia and Estonia and analyzes these factors that are critical in determining language outcomes for a language community within one country that speaks a majority language of another. Examines the possibility of three outcomes: language maintenance, bilingualism, and language shift in a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Language Planning