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semi-speaker: a standalone construct

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Language contact

a member of a community undergoing language shift who has imperfect active command of the receding language yet good passive knowledge of it.

In language contact, semi-speaker refers to a member of a community undergoing language shift who has imperfect active command of the receding language yet good passive knowledge of it. This meaning comes from Dorian (1977) in International Journal of the Sociology of Language.[1]

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community5 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs contact2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs good2 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Dorian, N. C. (1977). The Problem of the Semi-Speaker in Language Death. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1977(12). https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl.1977.12.23

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