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Publication details [#56389]

Dye, T. Wayne and Sally Folger Dye. 2012. A tale of three languages: language shift in a micro-context. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 214 : 27–38.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language death | language dominance | language maintenance | language shift | language use

Language as a subject

Languages, Papuan

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper documents the processes that, over more than forty years, engendered language shift in the Wagu village of Papua New Guinea, involving the death of one language, the attrition of another, and the succesful survival of a third against the odds.