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Publication details [#28878]

Grin, François. 1993. The relevance of thresholds in language maintenance and shift: A theoretical examination. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 14 (5) : 375–392.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language policy | language revival | language shift | minority language

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper focuses on the relevance of the concept of threshold in the analysis of language survival and in the construction of guidelines for language policy that attempts to reverse language shift.