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Language Grief: Its Nature and Function at Community Level
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Bostock, WW, Language Grief: Its Nature and Function at Community Level, Language, Society and Culture, 1, (2) pp. 1-14. ISSN 1327-774X (1997) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
As part of its culture a community will have an identity or "property of
being one and the same" (Brennan 1988:7). Identity implies survival and
because survival in an unchanged form is not possible it is normal to accept
a degree of continuity as a sufficient defining characteristic of a community.
A community can for example change its language and still see itself as the
same community as many immigrant communities have done. The
extinction of a language therefore does not necessarily involve the
extinction of a culture or a community (Edwards 1985). Communities can
survive a change of language or even several (Brenzinger 1992) but they can
also succumb (Day 1985). Continued functioning requires a concept of
future if a community is not to fall into disunity and ultimately extinction
(Borkenau 1981). The chances of the physical, political, economic and
social survival and future development of a community may be considered
to be increased by a change of language, which will have major
consequences for that community and will be indicated in the state of health
of that community.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Political science |
Research Field: | Political science not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in human society |
UTAS Author: | Bostock, WW (Dr William Bostock) |
ID Code: | 10215 |
Year Published: | 1997 |
Deposited By: | Government |
Deposited On: | 1997-08-01 |
Last Modified: | 2013-02-14 |
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