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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Language maintenace in the Malozi community of Caprivi

Sitwala, Josephine Ntelamo 02 1900 (has links)
Silozi is one of the local languages of Namibia with over 200 thousand mother-tongue speakers. The aim of this study is to examine the language situation in the Malozi Community of Caprivi and to identify the factors influencing the maintenance of Silozi in Namibia. The following factors were identified as relevant to the maintenance of Silozi: education, media, religion, contact situations, cultural activities and language loyalty. Despite the strong influence of English in education and increased use of English bythe younger generation, the findings indicate that Silozi is likely to survive for several generations into the future. The study reveals that a high percentage of both young and old use more Silozi in the domain of home, neighbourhood and church than English. It is evident that Silozi will continue to be used as a functional language in Caprivi for many years to come. / Linguistics / (M.A. (Sociolinguistics))
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Recent immigrant Muslim students in U.S. high schools : a study of sociocultural adjustment and multicultural provision

Domjan, Krisztina January 2012 (has links)
Rather limited research and few significant field studies have been done on recent immigrant students particularly from the Muslim societies of the Horn of Africa and the Middle East in the American high school context regarding their linguistic, cultural and religious needs. Most research studies suggest that immigrant students receive insufficient provision. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role high schools play in provision addressing the following questions: (1) What kinds of provision have been implemented to support a culturally sensitive education in public high schools in the U.S., and how effective have they been? (2) If any, what was the effect of the reform paper No Child Left Behind? (3) How could the role of teachers as culturally responsive educators be further enhanced regarding first/heritage language and cultural heritage maintenance? (4) Which steps would have to be taken in order to move towards a culturally responsive system? Peterson’s iceberg theory regarding cultures was the guiding theoretical approach which emphasizes the fact that in order to get to know each other’s cultures, one has to closely examine the underlying issues that belong to them as the information available on the surface is simply not sufficient. Qualitative case studies were conducted based on survey questionnaires and interviews among students, parents, ESOL/ELL teachers and mainstream teachers from 6 different high schools. This study has demonstrated that high schools can, in fact, be inviting, well-equipped with adequate ESOL/ELL programs. Findings from field work carried out in Loudoun and Fairfax County public schools in Virginia in 2011, indicate that there is a need to address misconceptions among ESOL/ELL students, their teachers and their parents as to what constitutes as multicultural education environment, and first language maintenance. It is explained how the role of culture-based after school extracurricular clubs like the Muslim Students Association can serve as a bridge between the culture of one’s origin and the host society. While teachers could serve as facilitators, students can become researchers and see relevance of their culture. The result from this investigation through existing literature, stories of individuals and institutions will add to current knowledge on ESOL/ELL provision and offer a deeper understanding of needs from both parties.
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Exploring the micro-social dynamics of intergenerational language transmission :a critical analysis of parents's attitudes and language use patterns among Ndamba speakers in Tanzania

Pembe Peter Agustini Lipembe January 2010 (has links)
<p>The study has several implications / for general theoretical traditions it highlights the point that ambivalent attitudes and incomplete language use are responsible for gradual language decline. Previous studies while acknowledging the role of community based, intuitive conditions on language maintenance and shift, did not show how the process occurred. For policy the study aims toward sensitizing policy makers and raise their awareness about the dire situation in which minority languages currently are in. This would ensure that politicians, bureaucrats, and other state authorities could implement policy decisions that guarantee protection of minority languages and enhance their vitality. One policy strategy that could ensure revitalization of minority languages would be to include them in the school curriculum as supplementary approach to the effort of the home and the community, as McCarty (2002, quoted in Recento, 2006) observes that schools / [&hellip / ] can be constructed as a place where children can be free to be indigenous in the indigenous language &ndash / in all of its multiple and everchanging meanings and forms.</p>
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Exploring the micro-social dynamics of intergenerational language transmission :a critical analysis of parents's attitudes and language use patterns among Ndamba speakers in Tanzania

Pembe Peter Agustini Lipembe January 2010 (has links)
<p>The study has several implications / for general theoretical traditions it highlights the point that ambivalent attitudes and incomplete language use are responsible for gradual language decline. Previous studies while acknowledging the role of community based, intuitive conditions on language maintenance and shift, did not show how the process occurred. For policy the study aims toward sensitizing policy makers and raise their awareness about the dire situation in which minority languages currently are in. This would ensure that politicians, bureaucrats, and other state authorities could implement policy decisions that guarantee protection of minority languages and enhance their vitality. One policy strategy that could ensure revitalization of minority languages would be to include them in the school curriculum as supplementary approach to the effort of the home and the community, as McCarty (2002, quoted in Recento, 2006) observes that schools / [&hellip / ] can be constructed as a place where children can be free to be indigenous in the indigenous language &ndash / in all of its multiple and everchanging meanings and forms.</p>
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Language, migration and continuity of being : notions of migrant language proficiency and self-concept among multilingual migrants in Aotearoa-New Zealand

Walker, Ute Gerda January 2004 (has links)
Migration entails adjustment and change, a process crystallized in the way language use patterns, proficiencies and identifications change. Although migrants are often bi/ multilingual, their language proficiency tends to be associated with fluency in the host language. Such a monolingual approach is fundamentally at odds with the ethnolinguistic diversity in migration contexts and has prevented a more holistic approach to the dynamic realities of bi/multilinguals. It has also perpetuated a view of linguistic proficiency as technical skill, judged according to idealized monolingual norms. Little is known of speakers' own notions of proficiency in their existing migrant languages (ML) and the impact on their socialpsychological makeup as their linguistic repertoire undergoes changes in use, function and status. This research investigated proficiency as a matter of conceptualization through its users, including its role for migrants' continued sense of self in the face of sociolinguistic discontinuities. A three-phase research design involving focus groups, a postal survey and follow-up interviews was used with a sample of migrants from a wide range of ethnolinguistic backgrounds. The study found evidence for a multidimensional conceptualization of migrant language proficiency (MLP) with a complex range of underlying motivations and a strong emotional attachment to ML, revealing ML as a linguistic resource crucial for self-construction. The present study aimed to provide a deeper understanding of the dynamic nature of these matters to contribute to a socio-culturally grounded view of proficiency and self-concept to help reveal some of the complex processes associated with migrants' social, cultural and psychological wellbeing. The study proposes bi/multilingualism as a settlement target to facilitate this outcome and to foster a sense of self that accommodates multiple identities. Investment in languages promotes an inclusive society of global citizens and complements New Zealand's official Māori/English bilingualism.
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Ideology, language and culture in religion: A single domain ethnographic study of language maintenance.

de la Viña, Dionisio January 1995 (has links)
Language maintenance investigations have, for the most part, been limited to the study of the effect that socio-cultural factors have on language preservation. Unfortunately, language maintenance has been studied in tandem with language shift. Language shift has generated more interested from scholars than has language maintenance. This dissertation is an attempt to open up new ways to look at the study of language maintenance by presenting a theoretical framework whereby the domain of language use is the principal focus of study. I studied the domain of religion, subdivided into several dimensions. One dimension, that of ideology, is at the center of my study. The main objective of the dissertation was to identify ideological themes within the doctrinal body of the church selected for the study. Twenty-five such themes were identified and analyzed to determine the ways in which the themes influence language maintenance among the church members. The case study approach and the use of several ethnographic data collection methods were employed to assist us in having a better understanding of the phenomenon of language maintenance and to pave the way for future language maintenance studies.
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Language maintenace in the Malozi community of Caprivi

Sitwala, Josephine Ntelamo 02 1900 (has links)
Silozi is one of the local languages of Namibia with over 200 thousand mother-tongue speakers. The aim of this study is to examine the language situation in the Malozi Community of Caprivi and to identify the factors influencing the maintenance of Silozi in Namibia. The following factors were identified as relevant to the maintenance of Silozi: education, media, religion, contact situations, cultural activities and language loyalty. Despite the strong influence of English in education and increased use of English bythe younger generation, the findings indicate that Silozi is likely to survive for several generations into the future. The study reveals that a high percentage of both young and old use more Silozi in the domain of home, neighbourhood and church than English. It is evident that Silozi will continue to be used as a functional language in Caprivi for many years to come. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / (M.A. (Sociolinguistics))
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L'exemple dans les grammaires de l'Europe occidentale des XVe et XVIe siècles / Exemple in the West European grammars, 15-16th centuries

Kistereva, Maria 31 August 2015 (has links)
L’objectif de la présente thèse est de cerner le rôle joué par l’exemple grammatical dans les premières grammaires des langues vernaculaires à l’époque de la Renaissance.<p>C’est à cette époque que la plupart des langues vernaculaires de l’Europe ont été soumises pour la première fois et de façon globale à une codification grammaticale :c’est alors qu’ont été rédigées ou publiées les premières grammaires italiennes (1430-1440), espagnoles (1492), allemandes (1534), portugaises (1536), néerlandaises (1584) et anglaises (1586) (cf. Percival, 1975 ;Padley, 1985 ;Swiggers, 1987). <p>Dans l’Europe romane, jusqu’au XVe siècle, seule la langue latine possédait le triple privilège de disposer d’une forme écrite, de jouir d’une description grammaticale et d’être, de ce fait, l’objet de réflexions scientifiques et d’enseignement. L’apparition de grammaires des langues romanes, langues vernaculaires accédant à un nouveau statut (celui de langue référentielle), est donc un événement majeur dans l’histoire des langues, dans l’histoire des idées, dans l’histoire de la réflexion que l’homme porte sur le langage, c’est-à-dire dans l’histoire de la linguistique et plus généralement dans l’histoire des sciences humaines.<p>Le fait que ces ouvrages appartiennent à une époque passée ne les empêche pas d’être au cœur de problématiques qui sont toujours d’actualité, notamment sur le plan de la didactique. En effet, dans le contexte de la tendance moderne à la standardisation des processus d’apprentissage (non seulement dans le domaine des sciences du langage, mais aussi dans les autres domaines de la science), les premières grammaires peuvent être considérées comme de nouvelles sources des sciences modernes. D’une part, les grammairiens de la Renaissance utilisaient les mêmes normes que les anciens, les scolasticiens et les humanistes ;d’autre part, chaque auteur voulait faire preuve d’originalité dans son ouvrage et c’est ainsi que les « écoles » nationales de langues sont apparues. Les grammaires de la Renaissance ont représenté pour leur époque une étape très importante dans le développement des sciences du langage, qu’elles représentent encore de nos jours. <p>Les auteurs d’études consacrées aux grammaires de cette période sont généralement attentifs au rôle de l’exemple, mais leurs travaux, peu nombreux, ne débouchent pas sur une étude circonstanciée des exemples dans ces grammaires. La question du bon usage et la question de la problématique de l’exemplification dans les ouvrages y sont abordées dans le contexte général de la normalisation des langues nationales dans des pays ou selon la forme de traité, mais les exemples n’y sont pas abordés en tant que tels et n’y constituent pas une problématique centrale.<p>À la lueur de ces différentes observations, nous nous donnerons comme objectif, dans cette thèse, de cerner le rôle joué par l’exemple grammatical dans l’émergence de ces nouvelles sciences que sont les sciences du langage à l’époque de la Renaissance. Notre recherche s’attachera tout particulièrement à observer l’exemple dans les traditions portugaises et françaises, au sein de la Romania, à partir d’un corpus constitué de dix traités.<p>Après le premier chapitre, strictement introductif, le chapitre 2 présentera les approches théoriques de l’exemple dans le contexte des grammaires, en décrivant le positionnement de la recherche par rapport à ces approches. Ensuite, les questions relatives au repérage de l’exemple seront abordées – marquage typographique, formes et fonctions de l’exemple dans le texte grammatical.<p>Le chapitre 3 sera consacré à la présentation de notre corpus. Nous commencerons d’abord par exposer la manière dont nous avons procédé pour le définir, ensuite, pour sélectionner les dix traités qu’il contient, et enfin pour le présenter en tant que tel. Cet exposé méthodologique sera suivi de la présentation des dix grammaires retenues, c’est-à-dire quatre grammaires pour le portugais, quatre grammaires pour le français, auxquelless s’ajoutent une grammaire pour l’italien et une pour l’espagnol qui font office de grammaires de contrôle.<p>Le chapitre 4 présente l’analyse détaillée de l’exemple dans chaque grammaire du corpus. Les grammaires y sont abordées dans l’ordre qui a été suivi dans le chapitre précédent, l’approche différant en ce que l’attention est portée ici exclusivement sur les exemples.<p>Alors que dans les chapitres 3 et 4 l’entrée en matière se fait par le biais des grammaires, dans le chapitre 5, elle se fera par le biais de l’exemple grammatical. Ce chapitre fait la synthèse de toutes les informations collectées dans les chapitres précédents pour les présenter de manière organisée, l’objectif étant d’établir une typologie des caractéristiques des exemples grammaticaux.<p>Le chapitre 6 déterminera les résultats et les conclusions principales de la présente thèse.<p> / Doctorat en philosophie et lettres, Orientation linguistique / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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Society, languages and ideologies in the oasis of Siwa (Egypt) : listening to people's voices / Società, lingue e ideologie nell’oasi di Siwa (Egitto) : il punto di vista dei parlanti / Société, langues et idéologies dans l’oasis de Siwa (Egypte) : le point de vue des locuteurs

Serreli, Valentina 31 March 2016 (has links)
Cette thèse constitue un travail d’ethnographie linguistique de l’oasis de Siwa, une enclave amazighe située dans le désert occidental égyptien. Après des siècles d’autonomie et d’indépendance effective de l’Égypte, Siwa a été inclue au cours du XXème siècle dans le système politique égyptien à travers un processus de changement général touchant aux aspects linguistique, politique et social. Plus récemment, elle a commencé également à (re)découvrir son appartenance à une sphère amazighe internationale. Bien que Siwa soit un terrain de recherche extrêmement intéressant, aucune étude sociolinguistique n’y a été menée jusqu’à présent. Ce travail se veut une contribution visant à combler cette lacune. La recherche adopte une approche pluridisciplinaire basée sur des outils théoriques développés en sociolinguistique et en anthropologie linguistique. Le référent théorique principal est le domaine d’étude des attitudes et idéologies linguistiques. La méthode de collecte des données combine la réalisation d’entretiens ethnographiques et l’observation participante. L’étude identifie les dynamiques d’usage linguistique dans l’oasis tout en les présentant du point de vue des locuteurs et discute les mécanismes et les idéologies qui sont à la base de leurs attitudes linguistiques. Elle suggère que la diversification sociolinguistique qui a récemment remplacé l’homogénéité à Siwa est liée à la variation des attitudes linguistiques en fonction de variables sociales données et qu’elle est observable à travers l’étude des attitudes elles-mêmes. Ce travail dépeint ainsi une communauté multiforme à un moment de transformations socio-économiques et de changement sociolinguistique en cours. / The present thesis proposes a linguistic ethnography of the oasis of Siwa, an Amazigh enclave situated in the Western Egyptian desert. De facto independent for centuries, it is only during the 20th century that this area started undergoing processes of modernization and Arabization with a consequent inclusion in the national (Egyptian) and the international (Amazigh) arenas. Although representing an interesting field for sociolinguistic research, this subject has not attracted scholarly attention so far and this work is a first attempt to fill that gap.This research has a multidisciplinary approach built on sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological theories. It falls into the field of language attitudes and ideologies’ studies, and it developed a combined method including ethnographic interviewing and participant observation. The thesis presents the dynamics of language use within the oasis from an insider perspective and discusses the mechanisms and the ideologies underlying both speakers’ practices and attitudes, arguing that the emerging differentiation of linguistic practices is related to the attitudinal variation across specific social categories, which adhere to different ideologies. The study portrays a multiform community in a phase of socio-economic transition and sociolinguistic change in progress.
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Language maintenance or language shift ? : a study of South Asian ethnic minorities' Chinese language learning in Hong Kong

Kung, Shui Man Jessica 01 January 2012 (has links)
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