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Asha Layne; Erin Miles – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Although W.E.B. Du Bois' impact on race theory is well-known among social scientists; his work is not widely incorporated into the sociolinguistic canon on racial identity through language. Moreover, one pervasive feature in sociolinguistic discourses is the paucity of literature exploring the Afro-Portuguese language. In addressing these…
Descriptors: Critical Race Theory, Black Dialects, Portuguese, Foreign Countries
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Kelly, Laura Beth – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This study reports how authors use Spanish in award-winning Latinx children's picturebooks in the USA. Teachers, families, and librarians use these books to support heritage language and culture or to broaden children's understanding of cultures other than their own. Thus, how these books use Spanish matters because of the potential of these books…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Childrens Literature, Spanish, Language Usage
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Maurais, Jacques – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
Reviews a book that presents the proceedings of three round-tables and descriptions of the goals and aims of the Language and Society section at the Moscow Institute of Linguistics (1988-90). (six references) (LT)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Research
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Edwards, John R. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1981
Illustrates some of the difficulties inherent in bilingual education, including inadequate appraisal of matters such as ethnicity, cultural pluralism, and language maintenance and shift. The paper suggests that bilingual education and its implications must be considered in the broadest possible sociocultural perspectives. (Author/PJM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Context, Cultural Pluralism, Ethnicity
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Artigal, Josep Maria – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1991
Provides a brief overview of the sociolinguistic situation in which the Catalan immersion program is being implemented and discusses the issues related to the main feature that distinguishes the program--the low socioeconomic background of the students. Also discussed are current theories about the discontinuity between the language used at home…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs, Linguistic Theory
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Edwards, John – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1990
Presents an approach to a typological outline for categorizing minority-language situations in such areas as speaker, language, and setting juxtaposed with dimensions including sociology, linguistics, and psychology. (36 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Typology, Linguistic Theory, Minority Groups
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Russo, Cos; Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1986
Describes the influences which have affected the changing sociolinguistic setting for tribal Aborigines in the Northern Territory, Australia. The effects of various governmental and educational policies on language development are highlighted, and the need for deliberately planned, implemented, and monitored language policy is suggested.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Kapanga, Andre Mwamba – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
The cross-cultural use of French in francophone Africa has resulted in creative linguistic and stylistic modifications reflecting the sensibilities, inherited cultural patterns, and disposition of its users. French is acquired in the sociocultural context of Africa and not the Christian, Franco-European intellectual milieu. Readers of literary…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Literature, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis
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Giles, Howard; And Others – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1990
Explores several models of cognitive and structural perspectives involving minority-language situations, and attempts to integrate them into a framework of predictive propositions that elaborate psychosocial climates of maintenance, majority-minority encounter, and interactive strategies. (65 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Language Maintenance, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
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de Vries, John – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
Attempts to tackle theoretical and empirical problems of measurement in the study of linguistic minorities from sociological and demographic perspectives. The operations of a language community, the growth of a language group, language shift, and language maintenance are addressed in terms of language community membership, current language…
Descriptors: Demography, Ethnic Groups, Evaluation Criteria, Language Maintenance
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Gonzalez, Andrew – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1998
Provides a language profile of the Philippines based on census data and sociolinguistic and historical literature on the languages in the country. Discusses the uses of languages in various domains, especially education, and gives a historical sketch of language planning from laws enacted and revised and policies implemented. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Census Figures, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction
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Luchtenberg, Sigrid – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
Argues that language varieties represent an important aspect of the development of bilingualism. Analysis of migrant children's acquisition of German and their productive, reactive, and receptive competence demonstrates that children who fail in the understanding and use of language varieties often lack the necessary sociocultural knowledge.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness
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Nelde, Peter H. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1989
Describes contact linguistic backgrounds in three distinct sociolinguistic areas in Old Belgium, illustrating the importance of ecological approaches in analyzing areas in which one or more languages or varieties are in danger of dying out. Data collection methods that discover, rather than conceal, linguistic realities are revealed. 29…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Culture Contact, Ecological Factors, Foreign Countries
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Fishman, Joshua A. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1990
A brief description of factors affecting the generally neglected study of reversing language shift (RLS) is presented. and An eight-step model for building and planning such research, taking into consideration such influences as community and neighborhood, family, and school, is described. (CB)
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance, Language Research
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Anderson, A. B. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1990
Synthesizes theoretical typologies in the fields of ethnic relations, ethnonationalism, and sociolinguistics into a sociopolitical framework for analyzing various types of ethnolinguistic minority situations. Particular reference is made to minority situations in Europe, North America, and developing countries. (35 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
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