The value of adopting multiple approaches and methodologies in the investigation of Ethnolinguistic Vitality

McEntee-Atalianis, Lisa

doi:10.1080/01434632.2010.541917

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“…From the early days of exploration into ethnolinguistic vitality, language use has been further hypothesized as a strong determinant in the perceiving of identity. Gao, Schmidt, andGudykunst (1994), andMcEntee-Atalianis (2011) found that ethnic identity has influenced ethnolinguistic vitality. In other words, those who have a strong ethnic identity have high ethnolinguistic vitality.…”

Section: Vitality Language Use and Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Language Vitality of Malaysian Languages and Its Relation to Identity

How

Heng

Abdullah

2015

GEMA

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Bahasa Malaysia is the national language in Malaysia, which acts as a national symbol that raise a sense of national unity, and maintains a sense of cultural value and identity. As the country is multicultural and multilingual, the use of Bahasa Malaysia, English, Mandarin, and Tamil invite questions of comparative vitality, which is a strength evaluation of language relative to other languages that coexist in the linguistic sphere.The present study, via the indicators such as language use, dominance and preference, language attitude and motivation, and language proficiency, aims to examine the vitality of these languages and to obtain comparative information about their connections to national and ethnic identity. Vitality Questionnaire was distributed to Malaysian primary five students fromvernacular Tamil and Chinese schools. Findings indicate that Bahasa Malaysiaand English do not have high vitality . Yet, vernacular languages are rated as having high vitality. It is suggested that ethnic languages dominantly shape ethnic identity and that they play animportant role in the students" lives at early age as compared to Bahasa Malaysia which has not gained a stronghold. Thus, the sense of national identity appears to have taken a back seat. National aspiration in this aspect of nation building is still far from being realized if it is to be nurtured and expected to be developed at this stage of growth. Within a multilingual milieu, establishing national identity appears a complex issue and language choice and use may have long term effects on the moulding of a Malaysian national identity.

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Section: Vitality Language Use and Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Language Vitality of Malaysian Languages and Its Relation to Identity

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Heng

Abdullah

2015

GEMA

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“…Methodologically, the theory has been criticised for its main reliance on quantitative methods such as questionnaires to measure the vitality of the group (see Ehala & Zabrodskaja, 2011;Lewis, 2000;McEntee-Atalianis, 2011). It is suggested that EV can be effectively measured using quantitative and qualitative methods such as ethnographic approaches.…”

Section: Ethnolinguistic Vitalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Methodologically, perceptions of vitality are complex and not adequately addressed quantitatively only. Qualitative methods or a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods can better capture the complexity of vitality perceptions (Hatoss, 2013;Lewis, 2000;McEntee-Atalianis, 2011). Theoretically, SEVQ has been criticised for measuring the outgroups vitality in respect to strength, power and status perceptions only, ignoring that there might be other factors affecting vitality such as motivation (Karan, 2011), ethnolinguistic identification (Hogg and Rigoli, 1996) or intergroup distance (Ehala, 2010;Ehala & Zabrodskaja, 2011).…”

Section: Subjective Ethnolinguistic Vitalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Theoretical approaches and frameworks to language maintenance and shift research

Tawalbeh¹

2019

Apples

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This article presents a critical overview of theoretical approaches and frameworks to language maintenance and shift research in the area of immigrant languages. It covers the underlying principles of these frameworks and assesses their advantages and shortcomings. The article argues that the field’s theoretical orientations have shifted recently, with a greater emphasis on understanding language maintenance and shift as a dynamic process involving complex interrelationships between space and time. These new trends and new areas of research in relation to language maintenance and shift are highlighted and discussed in different parts of the article. The article concludes by calling on the significance of refining established language maintenance and shift models in ways that correspond to current developments in communities and in migration itself.

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“…Reasonably objective indices of these aspects of ELV can be obtained through archival and ethnographic work (e.g., censuses, media analyses, policy reviews, etc. ; see Kindell and Lewis and McEntee‐Atalianis , for in‐depth discussions of ELV assessment).…”

Section: Subjective Ethnolinguistic Vitalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnolinguistic Orientation and Language Variation: Measuring and Archiving Ethnolinguistic Vitality, Attitudes, and Identity

Noels

Kil

Yang

2014

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Sociolinguists and social psychologists have long been interested in how language variation is associated with social psychological variables, including people's beliefs about and attitudes toward languages and their speakers, as well as their feelings of affiliation with ethnolinguistic groups, and there is a growing interest in archiving such information along with sociolinguistic data for subsequent research. With this end in mind, we suggest some brief, quantitative indices that might be appropriate and useful for documenting social psychological variables for contemporary and future purposes. The first construct considered is ethnolinguistic vitality, which refers to those characteristics that make a language group likely to behave as an active collective entity in language contact situations. The second is language attitudes, which refer to the feelings and beliefs that people hold with regard to their own and others' languages and the associated language community/ies. The third is ethnolinguistic identity, which refers to the manner and extent to which individuals define themselves as members of an ethnolinguistic group. Although we maintain that more extensive, detailed coding should be included in sociolinguistic archives, we suggest that these three sets of indices should be minimally included in a battery to assess a speaker's ethnolinguistic orientation.

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The value of adopting multiple approaches and methodologies in the investigation of Ethnolinguistic Vitality

Cited by 8 publications

References 38 publications

Language Vitality of Malaysian Languages and Its Relation to Identity

Language Vitality of Malaysian Languages and Its Relation to Identity

Theoretical approaches and frameworks to language maintenance and shift research

Ethnolinguistic Orientation and Language Variation: Measuring and Archiving Ethnolinguistic Vitality, Attitudes, and Identity

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