Critical Mass and Insecurity in Minority Language Policy

Huws, Catrin Fflur

doi:10.1163/15718115-02502007

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“…The second component of our research measures public attitude toward English loanwords among the community of Marebbe. Since a population has a fundamental role in language usage and preservation (Huws, 2018; Trudgill, 2000), we wanted to measure Ladin opinions and behaviour toward borrowing English. To this end, we collected Ladin opinions between April 27 and May 4 using a brief online survey.…”

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Anglicisms in Ladin: Loanwords and Local Perceptions

Erardi

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2022

Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies

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Italy counts approximately 12 minority groups within its territory. Among these are the Ladins located in the Autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano. This thesis is the first known sociolinguistic research on English loanword usage in Ladin publications and broadcasts, and individual perceptions of their use. Its findings were acquired from a survey of one Italian Ladin community’s perception of the use of Anglicisms. Combined, we find that many of the English loanwords being borrowed by Ladins are associated with technology, tourism, and business. Moreover, we find that while Ladins are critical of the use of loanwords, they do not perceive English as a threat to the preservation of the Ladin language. In addition, we find our sample is divided over whether new Ladin lexicon should be created to limit borrowing.

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Section: Research On Anglicisms In Ladinmentioning

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Anglicisms in Ladin: Loanwords and Local Perceptions

Erardi

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2022

Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies

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Conceptions and discourses of linguistic justice: Some illustrations from the Scottish context

McLeod¹

2019

Sociolinguistica

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This article considers the example of Scotland in order to examine the ways in which issues, arguments and claims that implicate linguistic justice are framed and presented in public discourse and in different kinds of practical contexts. It takes a positive rather than normative approach, identifying and analysing the main issues and lines of argument that have emerged in practice, rather than testing a particular theoretical understanding of linguistic justice. The article examines the key principles and understandings that underpin the current policy regime and the nature of provision for particular languages in Scotland, especially the autochthonous Scottish Gaelic language, which receives particular concern from policy-makers but also attracts controversy. Other important language varieties include Scots; Polish, Urdu, Punjabi and Chinese; and British Sign Language. Anomalies and inconsistencies are identified and analysed in relation to provision for different languages in different fields, disparities that often have political or ideological ramifications and require to be understood in the distinct Scottish socio-political context. In the final section, the article addresses in the position of different languages in the Scottish education system, attempting to discern the extent to which greatly varying levels of provision for different kinds of languages can be understood in terms of linguistic justice.

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Critical Mass and Insecurity in Minority Language Policy

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Anglicisms in Ladin: Loanwords and Local Perceptions

Anglicisms in Ladin: Loanwords and Local Perceptions

Conceptions and discourses of linguistic justice: Some illustrations from the Scottish context

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