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De Costa, Peter I.; Park, Joseph Sung-Yul; Wee, Lionel – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
This introduction builds on De Costa et al.'s (2016], [2019) notion of linguistic entrepreneurship, which is defined as "the act of aligning with the moral imperative to strategically exploit language-related resources for enhancing one's worth in the world" (2016: 696). The four empirical studies and two critical commentaries that…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Language Planning, Neoliberalism
Sonntag, Selma K. – 1978
A dialect survey of the transition between two major Indo-Aryan languages in Nepal, Bhojpuri and Maithili, was conducted focusing on both the linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of the various languages and dialects. The purpose of the study was to find out where and how this transition occurred between the pure Bhojpuri-speaking area and the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Dialect Studies, Language Attitudes, Language Classification