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245 10 a| Revitalizing minority languagesh| [electronic resource] :b| new speakers of Breton, Yiddish and Lemko /c| Michael Hornsby, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.;

260 a| Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;a| New York, NY :b| Palgrave Macmillan,c| 2015.;

300 a| xiv, 168 pages :b| illustrations, maps ;c| 23 cm.;

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504 a| Includes bibliographic references (pages 152-168) and index.;

505 8 a| Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Minority Languages: A Crisis in Authority 2. Legitimate Speakers of Authentic Breton: Who Decides? 3. In Search of Authentic Yiddish 4. Who Speaks for the Lemko Language? 5. New Speakers: The Future of Minority Languages?.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "In recent decades the 'death' of minority languages has attracted the attention of journalists, scholars and the general public and now features in various discourses about the decline of ecological and cultural diversity due to globalization. Many minority languages are undergoing revitalization (mainly through educational initiatives) and, as a result, some of these languages can demonstrate a slowing down in the rate of decline in the number of speakers. This has led to the appearance, in many instances, of so-called 'new' speakers, that is speakers who have acquired a minority language outside the traditional conduits of family and/or community. This book examines the background to this phenomenon and demonstrates how new speakers have appeared among Breton, Yiddish and Lemko speakers, all of whom demonstrate similar struggles and successes in their attempts to use their adopted languages in a meaningful way. "--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Revitalizing minority languages new speakers of Breton, Yiddish and Lemko / Michael Hornsby, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.

Author/creator	Hornsby, Michael, 1965-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Description	xiv, 168 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Linguistic minorities. Language revival. Sociolinguistics.

Series	Palgrave studies in minority languages and communities
Contents	Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Minority Languages: A Crisis in Authority 2. Legitimate Speakers of Authentic Breton: Who Decides? 3. In Search of Authentic Yiddish 4. Who Speaks for the Lemko Language? 5. New Speakers: The Future of Minority Languages?.
Abstract	"In recent decades the 'death' of minority languages has attracted the attention of journalists, scholars and the general public and now features in various discourses about the decline of ecological and cultural diversity due to globalization. Many minority languages are undergoing revitalization (mainly through educational initiatives) and, as a result, some of these languages can demonstrate a slowing down in the rate of decline in the number of speakers. This has led to the appearance, in many instances, of so-called 'new' speakers, that is speakers who have acquired a minority language outside the traditional conduits of family and/or community. This book examines the background to this phenomenon and demonstrates how new speakers have appeared among Breton, Yiddish and Lemko speakers, all of whom demonstrate similar struggles and successes in their attempts to use their adopted languages in a meaningful way. "-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographic references (pages 152-168) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2015019587
ISBN	9781137498793 (hardback)

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