Abstract
Minority language maintenance and revitalization is a sub-discipline of sociolinguistics that I mostly stay away from. My discomfort with most of the research in that area stems from the fact that its moral appeal clashes with my own personal language trajectory. On the one hand, the idea that minority languages should be maintained and, if they have disappeared or are in danger of doing so, should be revitalized, has obvious moral appeal: it feels like the right thing to support. On the other hand, I myself have largely abandoned the language I consider my mother tongue, Bavarian, first for Standard German and later for English.
| Original language | English |
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| Specialist publication | Language on the move |
| Publisher | Language on the move |
| Publication status | Published - 3 May 2018 |
Bibliographical note
© 2018 Language on the Move. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.Keywords
- 200401 applied linguistics and educational linguistics
- 200405 language in culture and society (sociolinguistics)