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Atkinson, David – Current Issues in Language and Society, 1998
Responds to an article by Strubell, "Language, Democracy, and Devolution in Catalonia," focusing on the position of Castilian-speaking individuals resident and working in Catalonia. The paper notes that the policy of assimilating migrants is no longer accepted without question, and it suggests diglossia as the only way to provide…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingualism, Dialects, Diglossia
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Yates, Alan – Current Issues in Language and Society, 1998
Responds to an article by Strubell, "Language, Democracy, and Devolution in Catalonia," explaining differences between various dialects grouped under the Catalan umbrella and focusing on the context of the new language-policy legislation, the impact of the new legislation, tensions arising from the implementation of the language policy,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Dialects, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance
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Spolsky, Bernard – Current Issues in Language and Society, 1995
Focuses on language restoration in a situation where people start again to use a language as the language of the home and to speak it to newborn children after a period when these uses were extinct. Specifically considers the conditions accounting for Hebrew language revitalization and compares this situation with efforts to revitalize the Maori…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Change Agents, Comparative Analysis, Ethnic Groups