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Publication details [#26148]

Dorian, Nancy C. 1994. Purism vs. compromise in language revitalization and language revival. Language in Society 23 (4) : 479–494.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
adaptation | language contact | language revival
Language as a subject
Arabic | Arvanítika | Cornish | English | German, Pennsylvania | Hindi | Irish | Nahuatl | Scottish | Spanish | Tiwi
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0047-4045
Journal WWW
journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper discusses puristic, conservative attitudes that threaten survival chances of endangered languages, whilst offering evidence from Arvanitika, Pennsylvania German and Northern Irish that structural compromise may enhance these chances.