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Heritage Languages: A language contact approachSuzanne Aalberse, Ad Backus and Pieter Muysken
[Studies in Bilingualism 58] 2019
► pp. 43–66
Chapter 3Social 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