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Publication details [#28915]

Ó Riagáin, Padraig. 1994. Language maintenance and language shift as strategies of social reproduction. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 15 (2 - 3) : 179–197.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | language maintenance | language shift

Language as a subject

English | Irish

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper assesses current theories of language maintenance and language shift, especially those based on social network concepts and refers to language change in an Irish-speaking community on the peninsula of An Daingean in south-western Ireland.