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Manuel David González Pérez – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2024
Although some critics consider it time-consuming and demanding, proponents of the monolingual approach for field research (i.e., learning to speak a target field language as part of the research process) argue that it can provide a unique insight into its structures. However, this claim remains largely unsubstantiated in the available literature…
Descriptors: Language Research, Data Collection, Documentation, Bilingualism
Hui Wang; Anikó Hatoss – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
The study of language maintenance and shift (LMS) has attracted a large body of empirical work in language policy and planning (LPP) contexts, including allochthonous (immigrant) and autochthonous (indigenous) languages. However, some critical ontological questions that relate to the scope and terminology of language maintenance studies remain…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Language Skill Attrition
Gorter, Durk; Cenoz, Jasone – Multilingual Matters, 2023
Language is on display all around us, all the time, and the study of this linguistic landscape is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in applied linguistics. This book provides an overview of how the field of Linguistic Landscape Studies has emerged and developed over the past 20 years, combined with an in-depth exploration of the…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Research Methodology
Csanád Bodó; Blanka Barabás; Isabela Botezatu; Noémi Fazakas; Judit Gáspár; János Imre Heltai; Petteri Laihonen; Veronika Lajos; Gergely Szabó; Csercsetáre-Invitees – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
The participatory approach is becoming more widespread in the social sciences and is also starting to take hold in the study of language in society. However, there has been little research done on how critical sociolinguistics can be linked to research that is based on the involvement and engagement of as many participants as possible at a level…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Sociolinguistics, Language Research, Language Attitudes
Jiazhou Yao; Peng Nie; Liuyan Zhou – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study adopts an apparent-time diachronic linguistic landscape (LL) approach to investigate the vitality of an ethnic minority language in China, namely the Nuosu Yi ([foreign characters omitted]). Diachronic LL research is concerned with changes in language use on signage over time. It provides insights into phenomena such as language shift,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Diachronic Linguistics, Ethnic Groups, Language Minorities
Roberto Zariquiey; Mónica Arakaki; Javier Vera; Guido Torres-Orihuela; Claret Cuba-Raime; Carlos Barrientos; Aracelli García; Adriano Ingunza; Harald Hammarström – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2022
The world harbours a diversity of some 6,500 mutually unintelligible languages. As has been increasingly observed by linguists, many minority languages are becoming endangered and will be lost forever if not documented. The increased urgency has led to the development of several global endangerment databases and a more fine-grained understanding…
Descriptors: Databases, Language Research, Documentation, Language Minorities
Simone De Cia – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
Italy is characterized by a considerable amount of language variation. Only a few spoken vernaculars enjoy institutional support and are officially recognized as minority languages. Among these, Friulian is one of the largest in terms of number of speakers. In the past decade, the assessment of Friulian language vitality has yielded discordant…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Research, Documentation, Sociolinguistics
Laila Mobarak Alhazmi – SAGE Open, 2024
This study is the first to explore language attitudes of the endangered Faifi language in SA. Understanding these attitudes is crucial for future language revitalization efforts. Employing a conceptual framework from LA research, data were collected via an online Arabic questionnaire with a sample of 258 participants. This paper aims to explore…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Arabic, Language Usage
David Beck; Paul Shannon – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
SLEXIL (Software Linking ELAN XML to Illuminated Language) is a web application designed to allow users to create animated HTML files from time-aligned transcriptions made in ELAN. Unlike earlier projects with similar goals, SLEXIL is a zero-installation web app developed strictly on user-centred principles, designed with the goal of transferring…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computational Linguistics, Language Minorities, Documentation
Lidia Federica Mazzitelli – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
This paper provides an introduction to Lakurumau, a previously undescribed and undocumented Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea. The first part of the paper is a guide to the Lakurumau documentation corpus, deposited in the ELAR archive. The participants and the content of the deposit, the technology used for recording, and the ethical protocols…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indonesian Languages, Native Language, Language Classification
Ross Perlin; Daniel Kaufman; Mark Turin; Maya Daurio; Sienna Craig; Jason Lampel – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
Communities around the world have distinctive ways of representing language use across space and territory. The approach to and method of mapping languages that began with nineteenth-century European dialectology and colonial boundary making is one such way. Though practiced by relatively few linguists today, language mapping has developed…
Descriptors: Metropolitan Areas, Documentation, Language Maintenance, Language Research
Dolowy-Rybinska, Nicole; Ratajczak, Cordula – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
The article studies minority language policy in the situation of an internal division within a speech community. It is based on the example of the Upper Sorbs -- a Slavic minority in Germany. The division within this community is based on language use, the level of assimilation and religion. The Catholic Upper Sorbs have maintained…
Descriptors: German, Bilingual Education, Language Planning, Slavic Languages
Manan, Syed Abdul; Haidar, Sham; Amin, Rooh UI – Language and Education, 2023
This study demonstrates how stakeholders' treatment of English language as the sole marketable/saleable commodity in educational setting can have implications for multilingualism and existing linguistic diversity in Pakistan. Language commodification refers to the valuation of languages as marketable/saleable commodities and their relative…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Brown, Kara D.; Faster, Mariko – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2019
This article considers the circuitous route of knowledge exchange from South (New Zealand)-to North (Finland)-to regional South (Estonia) by examining the development of Võro language nests ("keelepesä") in Estonia. Language nests reflect the global nature of educational knowledge exchange as well as the importance of networks of…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Foreign Countries, Networks, Language Research
Boerger, Brenda H.; Stutzman, Verna – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2018
In this paper we describe single-event Rapid Word Collection (RWC) workshop results in 12 languages, and compare these results to fieldwork lexicons collected by other means. We show that this methodology of collecting words by semantic domain by community engagement leads to obtaining more words in less time than conventional collection methods.…
Descriptors: Workshops, Language Maintenance, Language Research, Contrastive Linguistics