1. Sustainable bilingualism and language shift
- Author
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Anna Borbély
- Subjects
060201 languages & linguistics ,Linguistics and Language ,Longitudinal study ,First language ,Romanian ,06 humanities and the arts ,Language and Linguistics ,Linguistics ,language.human_language ,Local community ,Language choice ,Language shift ,0602 languages and literature ,Pedagogy ,language ,Longitudinal method ,Sociology ,Neuroscience of multilingualism - Abstract
In this paper, I introduce the longitudinal method in general, and more specifically, the method applied in a two-decade-long language shift research project conducted in a Romanian–Hungarian bilingual village, Ketegyhaza (hereinafter LongBiLing: longitudinal study on bilingualism). I will primarily present the language choice changes occurring in the first decade (1990–2001) but I will also give a short review of the findings comparing the two decades. The aim of the project is to find out at what stage the Romanian-Hungarian language shift process is in the Hamers and Blanc’s (1989) unidimensional model of language shift and to what extent the process can be considered gradual (Mesthrie 2001). In a previous article I sought to find out in which bilingual national minority (out of the six) in Hungary sustainable bilingualism was the strongest (Borbely 2015). In this paper, I discuss language use domains (25 language choice situations) in a local community of Hungary’s Romanian national minority investiga...
- Published
- 2016