Fishman's 8-level Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (GIDS) has served as the
seminal and best-known evaluative framework of language endangerment for nearly two …

“The world's languages in crisis”(Krauss 1992), the great linguistic call to arms in the face of
the looming language endangerment crisis, was first delivered in an Endangered …

MANY MIAMI PEOPLE, myself included, experience a paradox when we speak our heritage
language, which is said to be “extinct.” But what does it mean to be extinct? While members …

This book investigates the maintenance of multilingualism and minority languages in 12
different minority communities across Europe, all of which are underrepresented in …

We must not rely only on our 'scientific'definitions, such as mutual intelligibility and shared
literary norms, in deciding what should be recognised as a language. This is fundamentally …

How does a language community sustain their language in the face of ever-increasing
forces of language shift? This volume, both a textbook and a handbook, is the result of ten …

The Dapeng dialect is a unique Hakka–Cantonese mixed dialect spoken by several
thousand speakers in the Dapeng peninsula in Shenzhen, Guangdong, and Manhattan …

A view of minority language intergenerational transmission (ILT) outcomes in bilingual
families as success and failure is still prevalent in some Family Language Policy (FLP) …

Language policy issues are imbued with a powerful symbolism that is often linked to
questions of identity, with the suppression or failure to recognise and support a given …

Language socialization and language endangerment are two topics of central interest to
linguistic anthropologists, sociolinguists, and others doing fieldworkbased research at the …