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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allocutive American Basque Amorrortu areas Basque and Spanish Basque Autonomous Basque Autonomous Community Basque Country Basque Culture Basque ethnicity Basque Government Basque identity Basque language Basque nationalism Basque nationalist Basque pidgin Basque society Basque speakers Basque Studies Basque-American Basque-speaking Batua bertso bertsolari bertsolaritza Bilbao bilingual Bizkaian century Chapter communicative competence definition of Basque diglossia Donostia Elko English ergative ethnolinguistic vitality Euskaltzaindia Euskara Euskararen example favor formal French gender Gipuzkoan groups guage guistic hika History homepage Hualde ikastolas INTERNET RESOURCES Iparralde Julio de Urquijo Korrika Labourdin language planning Language Policy LEARNING OBJECTIVES LESSON FOR SUBMISSION lexicon linguistic attitudes minority language Model Modern Basque monolingual Navarre Navarrese official oral pidgin pidgin varieties political prestige proficiency Reno REQUIRED READING reversing language shift situations sociolinguistic solidarity speaking Basque speech status of Basque stress SUGGESTED READING tion Trask unified variety Univ Urla verb Vitoria-Gasteiz words WRITTEN LESSON zuka
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Page 217 - The vitality of an ethnolinguistic group is that which makes a group likely to behave as a distinctive and active collective entity in intergroup situations.