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Four Essays on Language Competition and Dynamic Language Policy EvaluationTemplin, Torsten 25 September 2019 (has links)
Diese Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der Evaluation von Sprachpolitiken mit Hilfe von Sprachdynamik Modellen. Da sprachliche Diversität ein zentrales Merkmal moderner Gesellschaften darstellt, müssen Staaten und Administrationen Sprachpolitiken sorgfältig gestalten und evaluieren. Mögliche Effekte, Nutzen und Kosten von Politiken müssen bewertet und gegeneinander abgewogen werden. Eine wichtige Eigenschaft von Sprachpolitiken ist dabei, dass sich die Anzahl derer, die von ihnen profitieren, sowie deren Kosten über die Zeit stark verändern können. Um dies zu berücksichtigen, präsentiert die Dissertation eine Kombination aus klassischen Politikanalyse Werkzeugen und neuen Sprachdynamik Modellen. Im Gegensatz zu bereits existierenden Modellen, können in den neu entwickelten Modellen Parameter aus empirischen Daten geschätzt werden. Dies ist eine Voraussetzung, um langfristige Effekte von Politiken realistisch abbilden zu können.
Die Dissertation besteht aus vier eigenständigen Aufsätzen. Im ersten Aufsatz wird mit einem abstrakten Modell gezeigt, dass es für einen Staat optimal sein kann die Minderheitensprache in Form von Bilingualität am Leben zu erhalten. In den folgenden beiden Aufsätzen werden realistischere Modelle entwickelt und damit zwei empirische Fälle analysiert. Im letzten Aufsatz werden Erweiterungen der vorherigen Modelle auf den Fall multipler Minderheitensprachen vorgestellt. / This thesis deals with language policy evaluation from a language dynamics modeling perspective. As linguistic diversity is an essential feature of most modern societies, states and administrations have to thoroughly design and analyze language policies. Potential effects, benefits and costs have to be assessed and weighted against one another. A pivotal characteristic of language policies is that the numbers of their beneficiaries and costs can change dramatically over time. To account for these changes, the thesis proposes a combination of traditional policy evaluation techniques with well designed language dynamics models. In contrast to previous models in the literature, the thesis proposes and analyzes models based on parameters obtainable from empirical data. It is argued that this is a prerequisite to analyze the long term effects of policies in a realistic fashion.
This thesis consists of four self-contained essays. In the first essay we show with the help of an abstract model that it can be optimal for the state to keep a minority language alive in the form of bilingualism. In the next two essays more realistic models are developed and applied to the empirical cases. In the last essay extensions of the previous models to the case of several minority languages are presented.
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“As long as there are Sweden Finns then there should be a need” : A Qualitative Study of Finnish Revitalisation Initiated by the Sweden Finnish Youth Organisation / “Så länge det finns sverigefinnar så ska det finnas ett behov” : En kvalitativ studie av finsk revitalisering initierad av Sverigefinska ungdomsförbundetBackvall, Linnéa January 2023 (has links)
Young people are a central group in revitalisation efforts that aim to turn the tide of language shift for speakers of endangered languages. In the context of the five national minorities of Sweden, this thesis looks at the motivation of young Sweden Finns to participate in or lead revitalisation efforts for Finnish in Sweden. The study circles in beginner’s Finnish organised by the Sweden Finnish Youth Organisation provide a point of entry into the way young people plan and adapt revitalisation efforts to the needs of other young people. Along with a study of materials pertaining to the study circles, five young people have been interviewed about their participation in or leadership of the study circles, or their involvement in the Sweden Finnish Youth organisation. Grin’s (1990) COD model has been used to explore the relationship between motivation (Desire) and the Sweden Finnish context. The study found that the study circles have been adapted to the needs and desires of young people on several levels. It also found that identity, a practical and emotional need for the Finnish language, an awareness of the situation for the national minorities in Sweden, and the acceptance of varying goals and non-standard varieties of Finnish, play important roles in young people’s motivation to learn Finnish and participate in or lead revitalisation efforts.
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Language identification for typologically similar low-resource languages: : A case study of Meänkieli, Kven and Finnish / Språkidentifering för typologiskt närbesläktade lågresursspråk: : En fallstudie för meänkieli, kvänska och finskaLarsson, Jacob January 2024 (has links)
This study examines different methods of language identification for the languages Meänkieli, Kven, and Finnish. The methods explored are two n-gram-based classifiers; Naive Bayes and TextCat and one word embedding-based classifier; fastText. These models were trained on approximately 100.000 sentences taken from the three languages and further divided into four separate datasets to examine how data availability impacts the final performance of the trained models. The study found that the best model for the examined dataset was the fastText classifier, but for languages with less available material a naive Bayes classifier might be more appropriate. / Denna studie utforskar olika metoder av språkidentifering för språken meänkieli, kvänska och finska. Två metoder baserade på n-gram undersöks; naive Bayes och TextCat samt en metod med ordinbäddningar; fastText. Dessa modeller tränades på sammanlagt 100 000 meningar taget från dessa tre språk och delades vidare in i fyra delmängder för att utvärdera hur stor inverkan storleken av träningsdata har på de tränade modellerna. Studien fann att den bästa implementationen utifrån den undersökta datamängden var fastText, medans språk med färre resurser skulle förmodligen gynnas bättre av en språkidentifering byggd med en naive Bayes klassifierare.
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Perspectivas de desenvolvimento do galego / Perspectives on the development of the Galician languageBruce, Daniel January 2009 (has links)
<p>O presente trabalho trata da língua galega. É principalmente um estudo sobre a história da língua galega, desde o nascimento do galego até o tempo contemporâneo. O estudo explica o surgimento do problema da falta de um consenso lingüístico quanto ao galego. Dependendo de quem é a pessoa a quem se pergunta, as respostas sobre o que é a língua galega, são sempre diferentes. Consultando diferentes dicionários e opiniões de lingüistas a língua que se fala na Galiza, pode classificar-se como: uma língua independente ibero-românica, um dialeto do português, uma língua ibero-românica fortemente “castelhanizada” etc. Isto deve-se às complexas relações políticas, que a Galiza teve com Portugal e com a Espanha. Relatando sobre os principais problemas em relação à questão da evolução lingüística da língua galega, apresento dois movimentos lingüísticos, o movimento reintegracionista e o isolacionismo. Eles mostram de maneira clara, que há diferentes alternativas possíveis de um desenvolvimento para a língua galega. A dificuldade de chegar a um consenso lingüístico quanto à língua galega, mostra o fato de existirem paralelamente diferentes normas ortográficas.</p>
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Perspectivas de desenvolvimento do galego / Perspectives on the development of the Galician languageBruce, Daniel January 2009 (has links)
O presente trabalho trata da língua galega. É principalmente um estudo sobre a história da língua galega, desde o nascimento do galego até o tempo contemporâneo. O estudo explica o surgimento do problema da falta de um consenso lingüístico quanto ao galego. Dependendo de quem é a pessoa a quem se pergunta, as respostas sobre o que é a língua galega, são sempre diferentes. Consultando diferentes dicionários e opiniões de lingüistas a língua que se fala na Galiza, pode classificar-se como: uma língua independente ibero-românica, um dialeto do português, uma língua ibero-românica fortemente “castelhanizada” etc. Isto deve-se às complexas relações políticas, que a Galiza teve com Portugal e com a Espanha. Relatando sobre os principais problemas em relação à questão da evolução lingüística da língua galega, apresento dois movimentos lingüísticos, o movimento reintegracionista e o isolacionismo. Eles mostram de maneira clara, que há diferentes alternativas possíveis de um desenvolvimento para a língua galega. A dificuldade de chegar a um consenso lingüístico quanto à língua galega, mostra o fato de existirem paralelamente diferentes normas ortográficas.
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Exploring the challenges of mother-tongue-based multilingual education in primary schools in selected minority language areas in southern EthiopiaMesfin Derash Zeme 04 1900 (has links)
Mother-Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB MLE) has become an important concept in the field of primary education in many parts of the world. MTB MLE is a form of education that deals with the bridging of learning in the mother tongue to using one or more languages as languages of instruction in schools.
This study took place in the Southern Nation and Nationality Peoples Regional State of Ethiopia (SNNPRS) to investigate the implementation challenges faced by two sample minority languages, namely Dawuro and Kontaatho, that use the mother tongue as both medium of instruction and as a subject in primary schools. The study focused on the drawbacks that hindered the proper implementation of the education and training policy regarding mother-tongue education in minority language areas.
To conduct the study, the qualitative research method was employed. Representatives from the Ministry of Education, Colleges of Teacher Education, primary school directors and teachers of mother tongue as a subject and as a medium of instruction, parents and relevant community representatives took part.
From the Ministry of Education, two experts from the Curriculum Design and Implementation Directorate and two participants from Mother tongue and English Language development directorate were purposively invited to participate in individual interviews. Similarly, three instructors from one of the Colleges of Teacher Education and 32 mother-tongue teachers drawn from eight schools of the target area were also individually interviewed. In addition, three heterogenous focus group discussions were conducted with stakeholders comprising community and parents’ representatives, schoolteachers’ representative, students’ representatives and school directors.
The study was based on the social constructivist and Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development theoretical assumptions. The findings of the study indicated that MTB MLE is not being successfully implemented in the minority language areas in the SNNPRS because of the deficits in awareness raising, proper teacher training, readiness of the languages in relation to orthography and scientific terminology to be used as medium of instruction, availability and quality of teaching and learning materials, standardised orthography, availability of guidelines and a strategy to carry out the MTB MLE programme, support and follow up of the implementation of the MTB MLE programme. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / Ph. D. (Curriculum and Instructional Studies)
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