Tradition and innovation in the Ethnolinguistic Vitality theory

Yağmur, K.; Ehala, Martin

doi:10.1080/01434632.2010.541913

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“…For a finer-grained description of participant characteristics and the criteria by which these three communities were classified as having low vitality for Spanish, see Velázquez et al (2014). The concept of language vitality is of course closely related to ethnolinguistic vitality theory, a socio-psychological approach to the study of minority language maintenance that has been used in the past three decades in the study of topics such as linguistic attitudes, intergroup relations, intercultural communication, language choice, and revitalization (Yagmur & Ehala, 2011). The concept of language vitality is referenced here in order to operationalize its opposite: communities where speakers choose to speak their family language and transmit it to their children, despite low status, low demography and low institutional support for Spanish.…”

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Reported literacy, media consumption and social media use as measures of relevance of Spanish as a heritage language

Velázquez

2016

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aims and objectives: This paper explores one dimension of language maintenance among college-aged heritage speakers of Spanish (HSS) in three communities of the U.S. Midwest. The aim was to understand whether Spanish was relevant at a point in life in which they were developing their own networks away from their families. Research questions: Were reading and writing in Spanish relevant for the participants? Did they use Spanish when on social media? Did they text in Spanish? Was Spanish relevant for them when consuming content on electronic media? Methodology: This analysis is part of a larger study on HSS in communities of recent Latino settlement. Respondents participated in an oral interview and responded to an online survey. Data and analysis: Results presented here come from a study designed to gather data on reported interlocutors, reading and writing, electronic media consumption, and social media use. Respondents were 71 HSS between the ages of 19 and 29. Results were compared with two control groups: 23 L2 speakers and 24 native speakers attending the same schools. Higher relevance was assumed when an event was reported closest to the moment of response. Reading and writing were classified as school, personal interest, employment, other. Relevance as related to social media, music, and internet use was determined by reported frequency. Findings: Highest relevance was reported for texting and listening to music; lowest was reported for consumption of internet content. Results for texting, social media and personal interest reading/writing suggest that for these speakers Spanish was viable for accrual of bonding social capital. Reading/writing reports suggest that for many, Spanish was also viable to attain specific academic goals. Environmental pressures to shift are evidenced in the uses not (or barely) reported: reading/writing related to work, religion and daily living, and consumption of internet content. Originality: This paper focuses on maintenance of relevance of a heritage language in the first stage of adult life. Implications: Results suggest that in using Spanish, respondents were not bound by physical context or immediate availability of interlocutors, but by their perceptions of viability.

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Reported literacy, media consumption and social media use as measures of relevance of Spanish as a heritage language

Velázquez

2016

International Journal of Bilingualism

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“…Hence, we can argue that the defining elements of identity for a particular group will vary depending on sociocultural and political variables or whether the group is an immigrant community, like Turkish immigrants in The Netherlands, Australia, and Germany, or a large minority, like Kurds in Turkey, whose language and culture face erasure. In terms of ethnolinguistic vitality (Yagmur & Ehala, ), one can only assume that the value attached to membership in either or both the Kurdish and Turkish language communities would have interesting ramifications for the identity processes of Kurdish‐speaking individuals in Turkey.…”

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Kurdish adolescents acquiring Turkish: Their self‐determined motivation and identification with L1 and L2 communities as predictors of L2 accent attainment

Polat

Schallert

2013

The Modern Language Journal

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In this study, we address the particularly charged question of why young adolescent Kurds living and attending school in Turkey, where their education is conducted entirely in Turkish, acquire the accent of the regional Turkish spoken at school and in society to different degrees of native‐likeness. We have chosen to study accent because previous sociolinguistic research and social views of L2 attainment have suggested accent to be the strongest marker of L2 learners' sociocultural identification (Baugh, 1999; Bongaerts, 1999; Labov, 1972; Moyer, 2004; Scovel, 1988). Moreover, we study accent because it is a salient source of linguistic profiling (Baugh, 1999), an important factor that can influence such extrinsic social rewards as access to jobs, entry into a country, housing, or membership in a group, particularly in communities that are imbued with violent conflicts. In our study, we called upon the constructs of identification with speakers of a person's first and second languages (Duff, 2002; Norton Peirce, 1995; Spolsky, 1989) and of self‐determined motivational patterns (Dörnyei, 2005; Pintrich, 2003; Ryan & Deci, 2000) to help elucidate the differing degrees of success in attaining a native‐like Turkish accent exhibited by Kurdish youth in a Turkish‐speaking society.

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“…A more general aim of this study is to explore the suitability of the EV framework to account for processes of language and identity shift or maintenance. To date, the EV framework has not yet managed to establish itself as a suitable instrument to that effect (see McEntee-Atalianis 2011, Yagmur 2011, Yagmur & Ehala 2011. 2 At present, Southern Min is, to varying degrees, spoken and understood by over seventy percent of Taiwan's population of 23 million.…”

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An empirical evaluation of ethnolinguistic vitality and language loss: The case of Southern Min in Taiwan

2013

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This article presents an empirical evaluation of Martin Ehala's (2007) mathematical model of ethnolinguistic vitality (EV). The model is here applied to assess the vitality of Taiwan's native Bensheng group (native Taiwanese speakers of Southern Min) by means of a comparison with the local Waisheng ethnolinguistic group (Mainland Chinese speakers of Mandarin). Traditionally, the EV-model measures the attitudes toward two distinct groups and their languages and cultures. In this article, we use the formula to deal with Taiwan's cultural complexity by including bilingual and hybrid identities into the EV-model. After an overview of the basic principles of the mathematical model and some essential facts about the Southern Min language, we test and discuss the results from 298 written questionnaires offered in Taipei and Kaohsiung. We then evaluate the workability of the EV instruments as well as the vitality of the Southern Min speakers and their language in Taiwan as indicated through EV results. The article concludes with suggestions for further elaboration of the model.

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Tradition and innovation in the Ethnolinguistic Vitality theory

Cited by 39 publications

References 39 publications

Reported literacy, media consumption and social media use as measures of relevance of Spanish as a heritage language

Reported literacy, media consumption and social media use as measures of relevance of Spanish as a heritage language

Kurdish adolescents acquiring Turkish: Their self‐determined motivation and identification with L1 and L2 communities as predictors of L2 accent attainment

An empirical evaluation of ethnolinguistic vitality and language loss: The case of Southern Min in Taiwan

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