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1 online resource (viii, 445 pages) : maps |
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Contributions to the sociology of language ; 64 |
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Contributions to the sociology of language ; 64.
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Contents -- Part I -- Social contexts of language death -- Theory of language death -- Codeswitching as a mechanism of deep borrowing, language shift, and language death -- Language decay and contact-induced change: Similarities and differences -- Part II -- East African case studies -- The fate of ethnic languages in Tanzania -- Language shift in Tanzania -- Reduction in Kore reconsidered -- Dahalo: An endangered language -- Language death and the origin of strata: Two case studies of Swahili dialects -- Chifundi and Vumba: Partial shift, no death |
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Lexical retention in language shift: Yaaku/Mukogodo-Maasai and Elmolo/Elmolo-SamburuDialect death: The case of Terik -- Language shift among the Suba of Kenya -- 175 years of language shift in Gweno -- Part III -- A survey of language death in Africa -- Names of scholars -- Subject index -- Index of languages (and variants) |
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"Articles ... based on contributions initially prepared for an international symposium on 'Language death in East Africa, ' held at the Werner-Reimers Foundation in Bad Homburg (Germany) from January 8-12, 1990"--Preface |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Language obsolescence -- Africa, East -- Congresses
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Code switching (Linguistics) -- Africa, East -- Congresses
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Sociolinguistics -- Africa, East -- Congresses
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Language obsolescence -- Africa, Eastern -- Congresses
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Code switching (Linguistics) -- Africa, Eastern -- Congresses
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Sociolinguistics -- Africa, Eastern -- Congresses
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Code switching (Linguistics)
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Language obsolescence
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Sociolinguistics
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Uitstervende talen.
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Sociolingüística (congressos)
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Línguas africanas (extinção)
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Sociolinguistique -- Afrique orientale -- Congrès.
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Changement de code (linguistique) -- Afrique orientale -- Congrès.
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Eastern Africa
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Africa, East
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Brenzinger, Matthias, 1957-
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| ISBN |
9783110870602 |
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3110870606 |
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