Language Socialization in the home and minostiry langauge revitalization in Europe. Morris, D. & Jones, K. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 8:127–143, 2008.
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Reviewing the research literature on home language socialization in the context of minority language revitalization in Europe is not a straightforward task. The body of language socialization research that has developed over the last 20 years (see Ochs and Schieffelin, Language Socialization: An Historical Overview, Volume 8), by North American scholars in particular, is currently very limited in the European context. The issue of minority language reproduction in the home, particularly with regard to inter‐generational language practices is, nevertheless, a crucial issue for all the European autochthonous and minority language groups whose vitality is, to a greater or lesser degree, under threat at the turn of the twenty‐first century (Table 1). This anxiety over diminishing inter‐generational language use has been addressed academically from a number of diverse theoretical perspectives by researchers in Europe. The most common of these are quantitative sociolinguistic surveys based upon census statistics and other language use surveys carried out either at the pan‐European level (e.g. Euromosaic study, OPEC 1996) or on a national/regional basis (e.g. Catalonia, Ireland, Wales). Other research has been conducted within a (bilingual) language acquisition framework and many case studies of individual families appear in books giving advice to parents and educators on how to raise children bilingually/multilingually (e.g. Hoffman, 1985; Saunders, 1988). However, very little detailed work in the 'language socialization' tradition has been carried out on the language practices of the various minority language groups in Europe which are concerned with their language maintenance and revitalization.
@article{morris_language_2008,
	title = {Language {Socialization} in the home and minostiry langauge revitalization in {Europe}},
	volume = {8},
	url = {http://www.springer.com/education+&+language/book/978-90-481-9466-7},
	abstract = {Reviewing the research literature on home language socialization in the context of minority language revitalization in Europe is not a straightforward task. The body of language socialization research that has developed over the last 20 years (see Ochs and Schieffelin, Language Socialization: An Historical Overview, Volume 8), by North American scholars in particular, is currently very limited in the European context. The issue of minority language reproduction in the home, particularly with regard to inter‐generational language practices is, nevertheless, a crucial issue for all the European autochthonous and minority language groups whose vitality is, to a greater or lesser degree, under threat at the turn of the twenty‐first century (Table 1). This anxiety over diminishing inter‐generational language use has been addressed academically from a number of diverse theoretical perspectives by researchers in Europe. The most common of these are quantitative sociolinguistic surveys based upon census statistics and other language use surveys carried out either at the pan‐European level (e.g. Euromosaic study, OPEC 1996) or on a national/regional basis (e.g. Catalonia, Ireland, Wales). Other research has been conducted within a (bilingual) language acquisition framework and many case studies of individual families appear in books giving advice to parents and educators on how to raise children bilingually/multilingually (e.g. Hoffman, 1985; Saunders, 1988). However, very little detailed work in the 'language socialization' tradition has been carried out on the language practices of the various minority language groups in Europe which are concerned with their language maintenance and revitalization.},
	journal = {Encyclopedia of Language and Education},
	author = {Morris, Delyth and Jones, Kathryn},
	year = {2008},
	pages = {127--143},
}

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