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Language Maintenance

Language Maintenance is a sociolinguistic phenomenon denoting the sustained intergenerational transmission and everyday use of a minority or heritage language within a community, particularly under conditions of external pressure from a dominant language, thereby distinguishing it from language shift or language loss in diasporic or marginalized linguistic contexts.

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The Sociolinguistics of Society

Mark G. Goldin, Ralph W. Fasold · Modern Language Journal · 1985 · 1.3K citations

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Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages

Sonia MacPherson, Daniel Nettle, Suzanne Romaine · TESOL Quarterly · 2001 · 755 citations

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

Urs Dürmüller · Language · 1980 · 744 citations

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Ethnolinguistic identity theory: a social psychological approach to language maintenance

Howard Giles, Patricia Lynn Johnson · International Journal of the Sociology of Language · 1987 · 665 citations

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Language vitality and endangerment

Sebastian Drude · 2003 · 552 citations

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    Joshua A. Fishman

    Yeshiva University, United States

    16 publications · 2.1K citations

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  2. MC
    Michael Clyne

    Monash University, Australia

    9 publications · 643 citations

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  3. KY
    K. Yağmur

    Tilburg University, Netherlands

    7 publications · 432 citations

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    Nancy C. Dorian

    Bryn Mawr College, United States

    7 publications · 710 citations

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    Martin Guardado

    University of Alberta, Canada

    6 publications · 366 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Monash University

    Melbourne, Australia

    13 h-index

    17 publications

    611 citations

  2. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    10 h-index

    14 publications

    708 citations

  3. Victoria University of Wellington

    Wellington, New Zealand

    10 h-index

    17 publications

    910 citations

  4. Tilburg University

    Tilburg, The Netherlands

    9 h-index

    13 publications

    769 citations

  5. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    9 h-index

    9 publications

    248 citations

  6. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    8 h-index

    8 publications

    720 citations

  7. The University of Queensland

    Brisbane, Australia

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    483 citations

  8. University of Oslo

    Oslo, Norway

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    754 citations

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Venues

  1. International Journal of the Sociology of Language

    IJSL · 98 publications · 5.4K citations

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  2. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

    JMMD · 101 publications · 4.3K citations

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  3. Language

    25 publications · 3.1K citations

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  5. Current Issues in Language Planning

    22 publications · 875 citations

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