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Publication details [#28916]

Priestly, Tom. 1994. Effects of educational and social mobility on language maintenance, language attitudes and language structure: The case of Sele in Carinthia. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 15 (2 - 3) : 199–217.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | language attitude | language maintenance | language variation | minority language

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper compares the 1920's and 1990's village life in Sele, situated in the Slovene-speaking minority region of Austria, to demonstrate the results of changes in educational and social mobility that make language maintenance a difficult challenge.