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The Verticalization Model of Language Shift - The Great Change in American Communities (Hardcover)
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The Verticalization Model of Language Shift - The Great Change in American Communities (Hardcover)
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This book introduces a new and still emerging theoretical framework
for understanding language shift and uses this approach to explore
a range of minority language communities in the United States. To
date, approaches to language shift have typically relied on
explaining the process through descriptive sociolinguistic models,
i.e., how the community first becomes bilingual in both the
majority and minority languages and then eventually shifts entirely
to the majority language. The contributions in this volume instead
attribute shift to a change from local control of tightly
interconnected 'horizontal' institutions within a community to more
external or 'vertical' control of those increasingly autonomous
institutions outside the community; in short, language shift is
driven by specific changes in community structure. In addition,
unlike previous approaches to language shift, the one proposed here
is generalizable. Following an introduction to the theory, the main
five chapters in the book offer case studies of individual language
communities, in different contexts and different periods. The final
three chapters of the book take a broader perspective, looking
beyond the United States: two leading specialists in the field
provide critical commentaries on the theoretical approach and offer
refinements to a theory of language shift, before a concluding
chapter draws together the findings of the case studies and
reflections on the commentaries. The volume will appeal to
researchers and students in the fields of language revitalization,
community studies, sociolinguistics, and social history.
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