Theoretical approaches and frameworks to language maintenance and shift research : a critical review
Tawalbeh, A. (2019). Theoretical approaches and frameworks to language maintenance and shift research : a critical review. Apples : Journal of Applied Language Studies, 13 (2), 23-44. doi:10.17011/apples/urn.201903051738
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This article presents a critical overview of theoretical approaches and frameworks to
language maintenance and shift research in the area of immigrant languages. It
covers the underlying principles of these frameworks and assesses their advantages
and shortcomings. The article argues that the field’s theoretical orientations have
shifted recently, with a greater emphasis on understanding language maintenance
and shift as a dynamic process involving complex interrelationships between space
and time. These new trends and new areas of research in relation to language
maintenance and shift are highlighted and discussed in different parts of the article.
The article concludes by calling on the significance of refining established language
maintenance and shift models in ways that correspond to current developments in
communities and in migration itself
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