ISBN:
9789004510746
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (304 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Language Revitalisation and Language Development Ser. v.1
DDC:
306.44943151
Keywords:
Upper Sorbian language Case studies Revival
;
Language maintenance Case studies
;
Language policy Case studies
;
Upper Sorbian language Case studies Study and teaching
;
German speakers
;
Electronic books
;
Case studies
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Map and Tables -- Map -- Tables -- 1 Language Maintenance and Language Revitalisation: Theoretical Perspectives and Research Context -- 1 Typology of Speakers and Prevailing Language Ideologies -- 2 Language and Identity in the Context of Sustaining Minority Language -- 3 Minority Language Maintenance and Revitalisation: Prior Ideological Clarification -- 4 Language Policy and Planning for Minority Languages -- 5 School-based Minority Language Revitalisation -- 6 The Structure of the Book -- 2 The Sociocultural Context of the Upper Sorbian Language and Community Situation -- 1 The Upper Sorbian Communities and the Consequences of Divisions -- 2 Sorbian-German Relations of Power and the Catholics' Strategy of Parallel Worlds -- 3 The Upper Sorbian Language-in-Education Policy -- 3 Research Design and Methodology -- 1 Research Design and Methodology -- 1.1 "Sorbian" Group -- 1.2 "Bilingual" Group -- 1.3 "German" Group -- 1.4 Focus Group Discussion 1 -- 1.5 Focus Group Discussion 2 -- 1.6 Focus Group Discussion 3 -- 2 Researchers' Positionality -- 4 Building Walls: The Catholic Upper Sorbian "Core" Community -- 1 "Sorbs" and "Germans" - Divisions Based on Ethnicity and Cultural Belonging -- 2 Relationship between Identity and Language as Perceived by the Sorbs -- 3 Sorbian Understanding of Speakerness - the Ideology of Language Ownership -- 4 Place in the Community of New Speakers of Sorbian -- 5 The "Sorbian Wall" as a Strategy for Protecting the Language -- 5 Divided Worlds: Relations between Students and Their Consequences for Language Revitalisation -- 1 Separating Sorbian and German Worlds at School -- 2 The Sorbian-German Relationship at the School -- 3 Teaching Sorbian to Students from German-speaking Families -- 4 Motivation of German-speakers to Learn Sorbian.
Abstract:
"This book deals with the tension between a strategy of language maintenance (protecting and reinforcing the language where it is still spoken by community members) and a strategy of language revitalization (opening up access to the language to all interested people and encouraging new domains of its use). The case study presented concerns a grammar school in Upper Lusatia, which hosts the coexistence of a community of Upper Sorbian-speakers and a group of German native speakers who are learning Upper Sorbian at school. The tensions between these two groups studying at the same school are presented in this book against the background of various language strategies, practices and ideologies. The conflict of interests between the "traditional" community which perceives itself as the "guardians" of the minority language and its potential new speakers is played off on different levels by policy-makers and may be read through different levels of language policy and planning"--
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