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Publication details [#25950]

Brown, Becky. 1993. The social consequences of writing Louisiana French. Language in Society 22 (1) : 67–101.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language maintenance | language revival | language shift | sociolinguistics | written language

Language as a subject

French, Louisiana

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper illustrates French Louisiana's situation of language shift interacting with a strong revival movement, backed by the creation of a written code.