Publications

Publication details [#2817]

Dressler, Wolfgang U. and Ruth Leodolter. 1973. Sprachbewahrung und Sprachtod in der Bretagne: Eine soziolinguistische Voruntersuchung zum Status des Bretonischen im Tregor. Wiener Linguistische Gazette 3 : 45–58.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

German

Keywords

language death | language maintenance | language status | social status | socialization

Language as a subject

Breton

Annotation

Language death and preservation is due to status roles and conditions of socialization. Reduction of a language to monostylistic usage can entail language death.