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Peer reviewedAlthoff, Daniel – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1994
Traces the history of Africans in Mexico and the Costa Chica and compares elements of the regional speech as described in a 1958 study with data collected on-site in 1991-1992. Findings indicate that the successful introduction of public education coupled with the ubiquity of the mass media have reduced or eliminated the more distinctively…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedNeugaard, Edward J. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1995
Controversy lingers regarding the name of the language spoken in the Spanish autonomous province of Valencia. Although the variety of Catalan spoken there has long been called both "Catalan" and "Valencian," recent controversy has become bitter and often surrounded by violence. Despite the debate, the language is in danger of…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Elitism, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedRahman, Tariq – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1995
Documents the rise of the Siraiki ethnonationalist movement in economically underdeveloped Southern Pakistani Punjab. Although the Siraiki intellectuals emphasize the differences of their language from Punjabi to mobilize public opinion against the injustice of their deprivation, the Punjabi elite view the Siraiki movement as a conspiracy to…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Elitism, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries
