Basque Sociolinguistics: Language, Society, and CultureIn this study of the Basque language and its influence in Basque politics and cultural practices, Amorrortu asks whether Basque will survive in the 21st century and explores its role in the definition of Basque identity. Distributed for the Center for Basque Studies. |
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Contents
Preface | 7 |
Acknowledgments | 9 |
INTRODUCTORY SECTION 1 A Historical Introduction to the Basque People | 11 |
The External History of the Basque Language | 19 |
The Origins of Basque | 27 |
A Formal Description of Basque | 32 |
REVERSING LANGUAGE SHIFT PLANNING 5 Status Planning | 41 |
Acquisition Planning | 49 |
Social and Register Variation | 101 |
Structural Language Attrition | 108 |
Bilingualism | 115 |
BasqueBased Pidgins | 120 |
Ethnicity Maintenance in the American West | 125 |
American Basque | 130 |
LANGUAGE IDENTITY AND CULTURE 19 Bertsolaritza | 137 |
Forms of Address | 144 |
The Codification of Batua | 57 |
Basque Language Knowledge Use and Attitudes | 64 |
Indirect Methods | 73 |
The Future of Basque and Evaluation of RLS Planning | 82 |
A General Plan for Promoting Basque Language Use | 89 |
LANGUAGE VARIATION 12 Regional Variation | 94 |
Gender and Language | 152 |
Language and Nationalism | 157 |
Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Social Identity | 164 |
Rituals in Favor of Euskara and Their | 180 |
Colophon | 233 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Basque Sociolinguistics: Language, Society, and Culture Volume 7 of Basque textbooks series Volume 7 of DE-601)485102560: Center for Basque Studies Volume 6 of The Basque Studies Textbook Series |
| Author | Estibaliz Amorrortu |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Nevada Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 1877802220, 9781877802225 |
| Length | 231 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / General |
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