Inhabitants of rural and peripheral areas in advanced democracies display higher levels of
place resentment. They feel that their area is ignored by political elites, does not get its fair …

Increasing migration-induced language diversity is putting pressure on the teaching of
regional and minority languages in official bi-or multilingual regions. This study presents an …

An important mechanism for language maintenance is transmission from parents to their
children. This mechanism is stronger for the regional language Frisian than it is for Low …

This paper contributes to recently expanded interest in documenting variable as well as
categorical patterns of endangered languages. It describes approaches, tools and curricular …

The study presented here is the first contemporary investigation of the subjective compared
to the objective ethnolinguistic vitality of West Frisian. West Frisian is a minority language …

This study focuses on the motivation of adults learning a minority language, based on a
tripartite model: integrative and instrumental (Gardner & Lambert, 1959; 1972) and personal …

Adults learning a minoritized language are potential new speakers, that is “adults who
acquire a socially and communicatively consequential level of competence and practice in a …

In 1999, devolved governance was established in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland
which altered the contours of language recognition in the United Kingdom. Whilst much …

This study aims to contribute new insight into the study of languages in contact by comparing
the implicit and explicit general language attitudes of bilingual individuals towards their first …

Social networking sites have become ubiquitous in our daily communicative exchanges,
which has brought about new platforms of identification and opened possibilities that were …