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McConnell, Grant D., Ed.; Gendron, Jean-Denis, Ed. – 1993
The atlas offers a cartography of language functions, quantitatively measured in vitality rates, for Western Europe. The atlas has three parts: vitality by language; vitality by domain; and vitality by country. Eighty-three minority languages are covered. Domains considered include: global; religion; schools; mass media; administration; courts;…
Descriptors: Courts, Education, Foreign Countries, Geographic Distribution
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Willemyns, Roland – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
Discusses the consequences of "language shift through erosion" on the basis of an analysis of the gradual disappearance of Dutch as a native language in French Flanders. Sketches the theoretical language-in-contact framework, breaking down the chronological evolution into diglossic, bilingual and (almost) monolingual phases. (37…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Change Agents, Communicative Competence (Languages), Context Effect