Chapter published in:
Heritage Languages: A language contact approach
Suzanne Aalberse, Ad Backus and Pieter Muysken
[Studies in Bilingualism 58] 2019
► pp. 43–66

Chapter 3
Social aspects of heritage languages

Article outline
  • 3.1Introduction
  • 3.2The scenario approach: Attending to social and linguistic factors
  • 3.3Maintenance
    • 3.3.1Indigenous minorities
    • 3.3.2Immigration
    • 3.3.3Social factors that affect maintenance
      • Case study: Turkish in the Netherlands
      • The primacy of everyday interaction
    • 3.3.4Investigating language choice
      • Interlocutor effects
      • Generations
      • Family language use
      • Networks
      • Communities of practice
    • 3.3.5Ways of influencing language choice
  • 3.4Shift
    • 3.4.1Shift and acculturation
    • 3.4.2When shift reaches its endpoint
    • 3.4.3Power versus solidarity
    • 3.4.4Language shift and ethnolects
  • 3.5When language choice is not clear-cut
  • 3.6Summary