Keyword

language shift

Description: The process by which a community increasingly uses another language instead of its established language across generations.

Primary topic: Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies (50%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q266961

OpenAlex ID: keywords/language-shift

Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

1994 · Shaw N. Gynan, Colin Baker · Modern Language Journal · 3,055

Reversing Language Shift

1991 · Joshua A. Fishman · Multilingual Matters eBooks · 2,280

Crossing: Language and Ethnicity among Adolescents

1996 · Joan M. Fayer, Ben Rampton · Modern Language Journal · 1,564

An Introduction to Contact Linguistics

2003 · Donald Winford · 1,563

Reversing Language Shift: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages

1992 · James J. Kohn, Joshua A. Fishman · Modern Language Journal · 1,490

Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics

1990 · Terrence Kaufman · Lingua · 1,454

An Introduction to Language Policy: Theory and Method

2006 · Thomas Ricento · 1,339

The Sociolinguistics of Society

1985 · Mark G. Goldin, Ralph Fasold · Modern Language Journal · 1,279

When learning a second language means losing the first

1991 · Lily Wong Fillmore · Early Childhood Research Quarterly · 1,271

Life with two languages : An introduction to bilingualism. By François Grosjean. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. 370. $20.00.

1984 · Robert L. Cooper · Language · 1,213

Contact Linguistics

2002 · Carol Myers-Scotton · Oxford University Press eBooks · 957

Multiple voices : an introduction to bilingualism

2006 · Carol Myers‐Scotton · 918

The Acquisition of Heritage Languages

2015 · Silvina Montrul · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 893

Bilinguality and Bilingualism

2000 · Josiane F. Hamers, Michel H. A. Blanc · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 879

Heritage Languages: In the ‘Wild’ and in the Classroom

2007 · Maria Polinsky, Olga Kagan · Language and Linguistics Compass · 874

Dynamics of Language Contact

2003 · Michael Clyne · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 858

Language Death

1981 · Nancy C. Dorian · University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks · 824

Language and minority rights: ethnicity, nationalism and the politics of language

2008 · Choice Reviews Online · 788

Genes, peoples, and languages

2000 · L L Cavalli-Sforza · Choice Reviews Online · 782

English Next. Why global English may mean the end of 'English as a Foreign Language.'

2008 · Ulrich Ammon · Language Problems & Language Planning · 777

Language Socialization: Reproduction and Continuity, Transformation and Change

2002 · Paul B. Garrett, Patricia Baquedano-López · Annual Review of Anthropology · 751

Language shift : Social determinants of linguistic change in bilingual Austria. By Susan Gal. New York: Academic Press, 1979. Pp. xii, 201. $16.50.

1980 · Urs Durmuller · Language · 741

Can Threatened Languages be Saved?

2001 · Multilingual Matters eBooks · 704

Language Contact and Change: Spanish in Los Angeles

1995 · Maryellen Garcia, Carmen Silva-Corvalan · Modern Language Journal · 673

Ethnolinguistic identity theory: a social psychological approach to language maintenance

1987 · HOWARD GILES, PATRICIA JOHNSON · International Journal of the Sociology of Language · 671

Works count: 31,820

Citation count: 198,100