Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents ix
4. Introduction
5. Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages 3
6. I. Perspectives
7. Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Language Contact, Maintenance and Loss 17
8. Sociopolitical Aspects of Language Maintenance and Loss 37
9. Linguistic Minorities and Language Policies 55
10. II. Various Approaches (part 1)
11. On Misunderstandings in a Non-Stabilised Situation 83
12. Some Aspects of Language Attrition in Turkish Families in the Netherlands 99
13. A Domain Approach to the Turkish Vocabulary of Bilingual Turkish Children in the Netherlands 117
14. From the Typewriter of A.L. 137
15. Some Linguistic Consequences of the Shift from Swedish to Finnish in Finland 149
16. II. Various Approaches (part 2)
17. Ethnolinguistic Vitality Beliefs and Language Maintenance and Loss 171
18. Convergence and Divergence 197
19. Language Maintenance and Shift 211
20. Ethnolinguistic Vitality and the Bilingual Development of Minority and Majority Group Students 223
21. Language Shift in India 253
22. Minority Languages as Core Values of Ethnic Cultures 277
23. Agencies of Language Reproduction in Celtic Societies 307
24. II. Various Approaches (part 3)
25. Language Competence and Use among Coastal Kadazan Children 333
26. Some Problems of Linguistic Minorities in Japan 357
27. The Hawaiian Model for the Revitalization of Native Minority Cultures and Languages 369
28. Minority Language Maintenance and Learning as Instruments for Improving the Status of the Minority Group 385
29. III. Prospects
30. Conference Summary 395