Vocabulary:
lcsh
Type:
Topic
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Work cat.: La pratique du breton de l'ancien regime a nos jours, 1995.
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Cambr. encyc. lang., 1987: language maintenance (the continued use of and support for a language in a bilingual or multilingual
community; language loyalty: the personal attachment to a lang. that leads to its cont. use in a country where other lang.
are more dominant)
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Encyc. lang. and ling., 1994 (language maintenance denotes the continuing use of a language in the face of competition from
a regionally and socially more powerful or numerically stronger language)
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Intl. encyc. of ling. (language loyalty, language maintenance)
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MLA thesaurus (maintenance)
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Dict. of ling. phon.: p. 194 (The study of lang. change within a sociolinguistic perspective has a wide range of terms; the
concern to preserve the use of a lang. or the traditional form of a lang. is referred to as language loyalty or language maintenance)
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Hartmann dict. lang.
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Here are entered works on the continued use of a language in a multilingual setting, especially when in competition with culturally
or numerically more influential languages.
