Reversing Language Shift

Reversing Language Shift

Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages

by Joshua A. Fishman

431 pages· 1991· ISBN 9781853591211
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This book is about the theory and practice of assistance to speech-communities whose native languages are threatened because their intergenerational continuity is proceeding negatively, with fewer and fewer speakers (or readers, writers and even understanders) every generation.

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