Concepedia

Concept

language maintenance

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247

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About

Language maintenance is the phenomenon and academic concept concerned with the continued use and transmission of a language by a speech community across generations, particularly within contexts where external pressures or contact with other languages favor language shift or loss. As a research field, it investigates the socio-cultural, economic, political, and linguistic factors that contribute to a language's vitality, the strategies and policies employed by communities and institutions to sustain its use, and the dynamics underlying linguistic resilience in the face of homogenizing forces.

Top Authors

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MC

Monash University

NH

University of Pennsylvania

JA

Yeshiva University

DS

University of Auckland

MT

Tel Aviv University

Top Institutions

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Monash University

Melbourne, Australia

The University of Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia

The University of Queensland

Brisbane, Australia

Tilburg University

Tilburg, The Netherlands