This leading team of scholars presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; …
While in many indigenous minority-language situations traditional native speaker communities are in decline, new speakers are emerging in the context of revitalization …
B O'Rourke, J Walsh - International journal of the sociology of …, 2015 - degruyter.com
While traditional Irish-speaking communities continue to decline, the number of second- language speakers outside of the Gaeltacht has increased. Of the more than one and half …
'Native speakers' and'native users' are terms traditionally used to differentiate between speakers who have acquired a language from birth and speakers who have learnt a second …
This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children's needs and interests above the individual languages involved. It advocates flexible multilingual …
V Loureiro-Rodriguez, MM Boggess… - Journal of Multilingual …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Adolescents' attitudes towards standard Galician, non-standard Galician and Spanish are examined in this study using a matched-guise test. Results show that adolescents perceive …
B O'Rourke, F Ramallo - International journal of the sociology of …, 2015 - degruyter.com
In this article we use Moscovici's (1976) notion of active minorities as a framework to explain the linguistic practices and motivations behind linguistic change amongst new speakers of …
Aims: This study investigates the perception and production of the Galician mid vowel contrasts by 54 early Spanish-Galician bilinguals in the cities of Vigo and Santiago (Galicia …
B O'Rourke, FF Ramallo - Language problems and language …, 2011 - jbe-platform.com
In minority language contexts, the aim of language policy and planning initiatives is frequently to enhance their survival prospects by increasing individuals' knowledge and use …