JOURNAL ARTICLE

Insights from the perspective of language ecologies and new contact languages in Australia.

  • Published In: Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2023, v. 13, n. 1. P. 88 1 of 3

  • Database: Communication Source 2 of 3

  • Authored By: O'Shannessy, Carmel; Angelo, Denise 3 of 3

Abstract

G&O's category where people speak the majority language, not the ancestral language, correlates with our Englishes L1 ecology type, where varieties of English are the main everyday language spoken. The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies of endangered languages across the world are likely to have much in common. The typology of Indigenous language ecologies in Australia makes a three-way distinction according to the type of language that is the main everyday language of a place-based community, as presented in Table 1. Several generalizations made in G&O about the difficulties of language maintenance and language research in these contexts apply to the Australian environment. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 2023/01, Vol. 13, Issue 1, p88
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Language and Linguistics
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:1879-9264
  • DOI:10.1075/lab.22081.osh
  • Accession Number:162086316
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