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Peer reviewedSaint-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
Peer reviewedSaint-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
Smiriglio, Giuseppe – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1989
Discusses the psychological or sociopsychological problems of two bilingual areas in Italy: The Alto Adige area and the Italian-Albanian area. The extremely important role of interlinguistic attitudes in attaining and maintaining bilingual status is explored. (92 references) (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Diglossia, Ethnic Groups
Download full textHe, Hao – English Language Teaching, 2008
Minority students' English learning is a special and an indispensable component of English education system in China. This article studies students' linguistic knowledge that live in Northwestern China--Gan Nan Autonomy State of Gan Su Province with majority population of Tibetan, mixed with Chinese and some Muslim. An analogous analysis is…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Minorities, Sino Tibetan Languages, Ethnic Groups
Peer reviewedJohnson, Pat; And Others – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1983
Recent criticism of ethnolinguistic vitality and the Subjective Vitality Questionnaire developed to assess vitality perceptions is discussed and refuted. The concept of ethnolinguistic vitality emerged as an application of social psychology to ethnic intergroup relations and is proposed as a construct for various ethnic, social, and language…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Relations, Ethnicity, Ethnolinguistics
Turner, Paul R., Ed. – 1973
The articles included in this book are intended to demonstrate the diversity of academic interest in the phenomenon of bilingualism. Articles treat Mexican-Americans, American Indians, and Suggestions for Further Research. The first two parts contain the following subdivisions: (1) Assumptions and Methods, (2) Language Resources and Development,…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education
Lambert, Richard D., Ed.; Freed, Barbara F., Ed. – 1982
Papers are presented on the loss of language skills by those who have studied and then discontinued the use of a second language. The scope of the papers is summarized and dimensions of language attrition research is briefly discussed. Theoretical aspects of psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics with special relevance to language loss are…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups, Evaluation Methods
Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC. – 1987
Thirty-six nontraditional undergraduate courses in linguistics are described. Course topics include: animal communication, bilingualism, sociolinguistics, introductory linguistics, language and formal reasoning, language and human conflict, language and power, language and sex, language and the brain, language planning, language typology and…
Descriptors: Animals, Bilingualism, Black Dialects, College Curriculum
