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language maintenance and shift: a standalone construct

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Sociolinguistics

whether a community keeps using its language over generations or gradually abandons it for another under social contact.

In sociolinguistics, language maintenance and shift refers to whether a community keeps using its language over generations or gradually abandons it for another under social contact. This meaning comes from Fishman (1964) in Linguistics.[1]

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community5 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs contact2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Fishman, J. A. (1964). Language Maintenance and Language Shift as a Field of Inquiry. a Definition of the Field and Suggestions for Its Further Development. Linguistics, 2(9). https://doi.org/10.1515/ling.1964.2.9.32

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