Year: 1985
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Prestige in bilingual situations has been generally described as a unidirectional force. It is held that that language or form of language which contributes to one's social advance will dominate in any situation. Unfavored languages suffer by losing speakers to a prestige language and by borrowing features from it. Only in an insignificant way have prestige languages been known both as recipients and as donors, e.g. English, which has received some words from Amerindian languages as well as from immigrants to the United States.
Source: De Gruyter eBooks
Author: William J. Samarin
Institution: Hartford Seminary
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2198740340