| LC control no. | sh 95009134 |
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| LC classification | P40.5.L32 |
| Topical heading | Language maintenance |
| Variant(s) | Language and languages--Maintenance Language loyalty Maintenance of language |
| See also | Sociolinguistics |
| Scope note | 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. |
| Found in | Work cat.: La pratique du breton de l'ancien regime a nos jours, 1995. 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) 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) Intl. encyc. of ling. (language loyalty, language maintenance) MLA thesaurus (maintenance) 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) |
| Not found in | Hartmann dict. lang. |
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