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Luvhengo, Nkhangweleni. "Linguistic minorities in the South African context : the case of Tshivenda." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001862.

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After many years of the oppressive apartheid government, the new democratic era came into being in 1994. Lot of policy changes came into being, including language policy. This new language policy of the post-apartheid era recognises eleven official languages which include the nine indigenous African languages which were previously recognised as regional languages in the different homelands. The present study investigates the progress of Tshivenda in terms of status and development since it was accorded the official status in South Africa. Literature investigating the status of Tshivenda is gen

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Chouiref, Fatiha. "La question amazighe en Algérie : le passage d’une revendication culturelle et linguistique au pouvoir politique." Thesis, Pau, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PAUU2043/document.

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Cette thèse porte sur la structure interne et les relations extérieures du berbérisme en Algérie, et le passage de cette tendance d’une revendication culturelle et linguistique à des demandes politiques autonomistes, au nom de l’amazighité du pays et l’antériorité de l’existence du peuple Amazigh sur son territoire. Ce peuple autochtone, présent dans tous les pays de l’Afrique du Nord, l’Afrique subsaharienne et dans les îles Canaries, jouit d’une particularité dans l’épreuve algérienne. En effet, la mobilisation berbériste est passée d’une revendication pour plus de valorisation culturelle et

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Anderson, Joshua Tyler. "Dams, Roads, and Bridges: (Re)defining Work and Masculinity in American Indian Literature of the Great Plains, 1968-Present." DigitalCommons@USU, 2013. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1768.

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This master's thesis explores the intersections of labor, socioeconomic class, and constructed American Indian masculinities in the literature of indigenous writers of the Great Plains published after the Native American Renaissance of the late 1960s. By engaging scholars and theorists from multiple disciplines--including Native labor historians such as Colleen O'Neill and Alexandra Harmon, (trans)indigenous studies scholars such as Chadwick Allen and Philip Deloria, and Native literary and cultural critics such as Gerald Vizenor and Louis Owens--this thesis offers an American Studies approach

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Knooihuizen, Remco Mathijs. "Minority languages between reformation and revolution." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3289.

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In this thesis, I intend to further our knowledge of the sociolinguistics of Early Modern minority languages. Social and political developments in North-Western Europe in the 16th to 18th centuries caused an emancipation of vernacular languages, which took over from Latin as the main language in official domains. The sociolinguistics of this change are well known (e.g. Burke 2004); the fate of languages that did not make it to this new status, emerging ‘minority languages’, remains under-researched. Chapter 2 introduces some of the terminology used in this study. I discuss four categories of r

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Marten, Heiko F. "Languages and parliaments the impact of decentralisation on minority languages." Muenchen Lincom Europa, 2009. http://d-nb.info/992747902/04.

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Chantreau, Katell. "Transmettre une langue minoritaire autochtone à ses enfants : le cas du breton." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022REN20018.

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En partant du point de vue des parents, cette thèse en sciences de l’éducation étudie la transmission familiale du breton, dans un contexte de revitalisation linguistique qui fait suite à la rupture quasi totale de la transmission intergénérationnelle dans les années 1950. Une enquête de terrain, auprès de parents bretonnants âgés de 23 à 48 ans en 2018, constitue la base de cette recherche et a permis de récolter de nombreuses données qualitatives et quantitatives, issues de 50 entretiens semi-directifs et de deux questionnaires (450 répondants pour l’un et 306 pour l’autre). Elle met en lumi

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Maja, Innocent. "Towards the protection of minority languages in Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/5848.

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The purpose of this study is to understand the nature and scope of protection of minority languages and assesses how international human rights law can protect minority languages in Africa. Focuses on three questions: (1) What is the normative content of language rights?, (2) To what extent does the African human rights system protect minority languages? and 3) What measures can be taken at the national and regional levels to improve respect for and protection of minority languages in Africa?’<br>Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2007.<br>Dis

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Simon, Sophie. "Étude comparative de la protection internationale des minorités en Europe et en Amérique." Thesis, Paris 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA010269.

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Les minorités sont les fruits de l’histoire, des conquêtes, des défaites, des modifications de frontières. Mais si aucune histoire nationale ne ressemble à une autre, les minorités, dans leur diversité, se trouvent dans des situations s’apparentent les unes aux autres. Dans ce contexte global, cette étude a pour objectif d’appréhender dans quelle mesure les droits nationaux et internationaux des minorités répondent effectivement aux besoins des personnes appartenant à ces dernières. Pour ce faire, deux thématiques revenant régulièrement dans les doléances des membres des minorités ont été séle

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Hornsby, Michael. "Globalisation processes and minority languages : linguistic hybridity in Brittany." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/344489/.

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Recent interest in the ‘disappearance’ of languages has been accompanied by increased revitalisation efforts in many minority language settings, often considered to be experiencing obsolescence due to pressures of globalisation and modernity. Many of these revival movements aim to ‘recreate’ an idealised (or ‘authentic’) form of the language in question, through reference to traditional or standardised language practices. Simultaneously, however, ‘unanticipated results of language management’ (Spolsky 2006: 87) have produced non‐traditional and hybrid linguistic forms which are very often cont

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Nic, Shuibhne Niamh. "The European Community and minority languages : a question of competence?" Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22524.

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This thesis examines the role, both actual and potential, of the European Community in the development of effective minority language policy. The study is confined to indigenous or autochthonous minority languages spoken in the EC Member States and focuses on the use of language in official or public domains. The involvement of the Community in language, and particularly minority language, issues is justified on a number of grounds, primarily on the basis that the dynamic of European integration has disrupted patterns of language use throughout the Member States. The reciprocal role of the Com

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Bercero, Otal María Rosa. "L'Aragonés, an endangered minority language : the case of Ayerbe." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5419/.

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Aragonese is a minority endangered language used in the Alto Aragon area. Ayerbe is a town found in the Plana de Uesca in Alto Aragon, and therefore it is considered to belong to a geographical area where the use of the Aragonese language finds itself in a significant state of decline compared to the use of Castilian Spanish. This study examines the extent to which this is true. The objective was to conduct a questionnaire amongst residents in Ayerbe in order to explore their language use, their perceptions of the language, their linguistic awareness and their affinity to the concept of Aragon

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Forsman, Hampus. "”It is a huge wealth with languages and cultures” : Administrative Municipalities and Minority Languages in Sweden." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Kulturgeografi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-105937.

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This thesis will focus on the seven Swedish administrative municipalities that administer at least two of the three official minority languages in Sweden. Those languages are Finnish Meänkieli (Torne Valley Finnish) and Saami languages and all of these languages are territorially bound to the northernmost area in Sweden. The thesis depart from a new law (SFS 2009:724) that went into practice in 2010. The new law is based on new directives from the European Council to promote and protect regional- and minority languages which is part of a change of paradigm where the value of minority languages

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Lawy, Jenny. "Ethnography of San : minority recognition and voice in Botswana." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22888.

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Over the last sixty years anthropological interest in San has focused on their status as hunter-gatherers and, more recently, as an economically and socially marginalised minority group. In this thesis, I examine the different ways in which this indigenous minority population in Botswana manage and negotiate their relations with one another and with the broader society in which they are embedded. The research comprised eighteen months of fieldwork (April 2010 to December 2011) in Gaborone city, and a largely Naro-speaking village in Gantsi District in the west of Botswana. The participants com

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Huang, Dongqiu. "Indigenous languages and TEFL in a senior school in Taiwan." Thesis, University of Reading, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250502.

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Угва, Чімаобі Прінс, Ганна Іванівна Кисельова, Анна Ивановна Киселева, and Hanna Ivanivna Kyselova. "Indigenous Languages Of Nigeria: Current State And Problems Of Conservation." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2021. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/84807.

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The problem of preserving indigenous languages – the languages of the country's indigenous peoples – is an urgent problem of modern mankind. About half of the languages existing today (about 6,000) are threatened with extinction. According to UNESCO, one language dies every week in the world, 50 years later, such a developed language as Igbo, which is spoken by tens of millions of people, may disappear.

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Hsieh, Ching-yueh. "Exhibiting minority culture : an exploration of exhibitions of indigenous culture in museums of Taiwan." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/38217.

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The research subjects of this study are temporary museum exhibitions of indigenous culture in Taiwan. Via three case studies, each typifying a different approach to exhibition making, this study isolates the factors that affect the process of making museum exhibitions of indigenous culture in Taiwan, examines the effects that exhibition making has on the exhibited subject and delineates the nature and characteristics of such exhibitions themselves. The key findings of this study are that such factors as the rules and resources generated by cultural policy, administration and performance evalua

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Frasnelli, Denise. "Minority and Regional Languages in the European Union: Ireland, Italy and Spain." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/16529/.

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The European Union and the single States have different laws and regulations protecting linguistic rights. In this dissertation we have a look at three different situations, namely those of Ireland, Italy and Spain. We see which legal arrangements have been made in order to protect the cultural heritage and the usage of minority and regional languages in each State.

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Donaldson, Andrew. "Minority Languages and Rural Development in the EU: Constructing Identities in Cornwall." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490152.

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Abstract This thesis examined the roles of culture and identity in development processes, focusing on the case of indigenous minority languages in the EU. I undertake a study of cultural, political and linguistic activists in Cornwall, during preparations for the current Objective One programme. 'Development' is broken down into a range of discourse and ideology; some of those components are shown to have been central in the process of nation-state bUilding in Europe, which also reduced certain languages to the status of 'minority'. Combining elements of social constructionism, anthropology an

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Prosser, Van Der Riet Michael. "A study of the policy of promotion of minority languages in China." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de València, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/10319.

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This thesis sets out to analyse the policy of promotion of standardised minority languages and scripts, alongside the universal promotion of the standard Mandarin Han language and script, among minority language speakers of southwestern China lacking a previous tradition of widespread popular literacy. Two case studies are described, evaluated and contrasted, in which the same basic policy has produced significantly different results.Firstly, under the "Relative Success Question", light is shed on why the promotion of the Nuosu script among Nuosu-speakers in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefect

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Harvey, Sean Patrick. "American languages: Indians, ethnology, and the empire for liberty." W&M ScholarWorks, 2009. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623548.

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"American Languages: Indians, Ethnology, and the Empire for Liberty" is a study of knowledge and power, as it relates to Indian affairs, in the early republic. It details the interactions, exchanges, and networks through which linguistic and racial ideas were produced and it examines the effect of those ideas on Indian administration. First etymology, then philology, guided the study of human descent, migrations, and physical and mental traits, then called ethnology. It would answer questions of Indian origins and the possibility of Indian incorporation into the United States. It was crucial t

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Mpanza, Choice Dimakatso. "Strategies that can be used to promote the use of indigenous African languages for teaching and learning in schools: an exploratory case study of isiZulu." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1478.

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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of General Linguistics and Modern Languages at the University Of Zululand, South Africa, 2015<br>The study explored strategies that can be used to promote the use of indigenous African languages for teaching and learning in the General Education and Training (GET) and (Further Education and Training (FET) phases of schooling in South Africa. The motivation for the study came from the constitutional recognition given to indigenous African languages as offici

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Law, Philippa. "Audiences' willingness to participate in Welsh-language media." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2013. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8554.

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Contemporary media audiences expect to be able to interact with content, but in a minority language context, audience participation presents challenges related to audiences’ linguistic confidence. This thesis focuses on Wales, where media producers have suggested that audiences are often reluctant to interact with broadcast and online content in Welsh. To begin to understand this unwillingness, and how it might be overcome, the concept of willingness to participate (WTP) is coined as an extension of willingness to communicate (McCroskey & Baer 1985). First, interviews with producers are analys

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Ogechi, Nathan Oyori. "Publishing in Kiswahili and indigenous languages for enhanced adult literacy in Kenya." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91659.

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This paper argues a case for the preparation of reading materials in Kiswahili and other African languages in order to enhance adult education in Kenya. Adult education clientele are defined as those aged over 15 who (a) were either never enrolled in primary schools or dropped out before completing and (b) `graduated` and currently participate in community extension services. Cognisance of mothertongues as the best languages to begin basic literacy is taken. However, since the literacy so acquired should be useful to the individual at both local and national levels, one needs Kiswahili for wid

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Guitart, Teresa. "Television broadcasting in minority languages: the case of TV3 and a comparative study." Thesis, Boston University, 1988. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/37157.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University<br>PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>This paper provides a case study of TV3. TV3 is a regional television channel which broadcasts throughout the territory of Catalonia (North-East of Spain) exclusively in Catalan, a minority language. The popul

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Mocellin, Alessandro <1988&gt. "CLIL for minority languages: resources, limits and applicability. A case study on Venetian." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18529.

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Teaching and learning minority languages represents a very important expansion basin for the theories and practices developed by language acquisition studies for official and standardized languages, tough necessarily posing new and more specific problems foreseeably very prone to requiring tailored solutions in practice. In particular, CLIL emerged as a very functional and flexible methodology for minority languages teaching. In Italy, the last two decades show how the promotion through teaching in schools of the three newly recognized (1999) indigenous languages can be manyfold, on the axes o

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Minney, James David. "The Flemish movement of French Flanders and the maintenance of Vlaemsch." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310292.

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Bedford, K. Juliet A. "Gombak and its patients: provision of healthcare to the Orang Asli (indigenous minority) of Peninsular Malaysia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491580.

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Jimenez, Quispe Luz. "Indians weaving in cyberspace indigenous urban youth cultures, identities and politics of languages." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3605909.

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<p> This study is aimed at analyzing how contemporary urban Aymara youth hip hoppers and bloggers are creating their identities and are producing discourses in texts and lyrics to contest racist and colonial discourses. The research is situated in Bolivia, which is currently engaged in a cultural and political revolution supported by Indigenous movements. Theoretically the study is framed by a multi-perspective conceptual framework based on subaltern studies, coloniality of power, coloniality of knowledge, interculturality and decolonial theory. Aymara young people illustrate the possibility o

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Sultana, Niger. "Indigenous languages in the secondary curriculum in Bangladesh: a study in Khagrachari District." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Educational Studies and Human Development, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6926.

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The purpose of this study is to provide a rich description of the role of languages, especially indigenous languages in the secondary curriculum in Bangladesh. Through this research I seek to identify the role of mother language in education. The role described from the perspectives of the Head Teacher/ Principal, Bangla language Teacher, Curriculum planner, Community leaders (from Chakma, Marma and Tripura community), and Tribal Students from the three tribal groups. Drawing on an understanding of curriculum as a tool for the social control of knowledge, I show how the secondary language curr

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Rondyang, H. Wani. "The role of indigenous languages in southern Sudan : educational language policy and planning." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10007457/.

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This thesis aims to questions the language policy of Sudan's central government since independence in 1956. An investigation of the root causes of educational problems, which are seemingly linked to the current language policy, is examined throughout the thesis from Chapter 1 through 9. In specific terms, Chapter 1 foregrounds the discussion of the methods and methodology for this research purposely because the study is based, among other things, on the analysis of historical documents pertaining to events and processes of sociolinguistic significance for this study. The factors and sociolingu

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Tukwasibwe, Constance. "The influence of indigenous languages on Ugandan English as used in the media." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015637.

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When two or more languages come in contact, they influence each other in various ways, for example through word borrowing, transfer of sounds, morphology and syntax taken from one language system and imported to another. In this study, the primary concern is on the indigenous communities of Uganda learning the English language, plus the influence that this interaction brings into the linguistic space. Bringing the Ugandan multilingual situation into perspective, the study looks at how the English language has interacted with the local languages and the local speech habits, customs and traditio

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Jimenez, Quispe Luz. "Indians Weaving in Cyberspace, Indigenous Urban Youth Cultures, Identities and Politics of Languages." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/311535.

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This study is aimed at analyzing how contemporary urban Aymara youth hip hoppers and bloggers are creating their identities and are producing discourses in texts and lyrics to contest racist and colonial discourses. The research is situated in Bolivia, which is currently engaged in a cultural and political revolution supported by Indigenous movements. Theoretically the study is framed by a multi-perspective conceptual framework based on subaltern studies, coloniality of power, coloniality of knowledge, interculturality and decolonial theory. Aymara young people illustrate the possibility of pr

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Gava, Águida Aparecida [UNESP]. "Plataforma Kuhi pei: proposta de um modelo de dicionário terminológico onomasiológico multilíngue para crianças, Português – Arara, Kadiwéu, Karitiana, Parintintin, Xavante, Zoró." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/100117.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:30:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-03-08Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:40:38Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 gava_aa_dr_sjrp.pdf: 2016825 bytes, checksum: 3e32d45e8e474596cb0ebc8cd87687cd (MD5)<br>O presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal propor um modelo de dicionário terminológico onomasiológico multilíngue para crianças, com o propósito de divulgar as línguas indígenas. Tal dicionário é composto de 258 termos da fauna brasileira, organizados em anfíbios, aves, mamíferos, peixes e répteis, com equivalentes nas línguas indí

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Grier, Lara Anne. "Decolonising the media : the use of indigenous African languages in South African television advertisements." University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13659.

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\<br>Advertisements in African languages are generally confined to radio, and in that medium are factual, dialogic and direct. When used in television advertising, however, South Africa’s indigenous languages play a less informative role, being employed rather to index a concretised African essence, African identity, urban style, or a particular reified postapartheid togetherness and cultural mobility. In this dissertation I analyse six television advertisements, all using African languages or language varieties, broadcast over the years starting 2010 through to 2014. I reflect on how and why

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Schiavon, Sara <1994&gt. "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages Education in Australia. The importance and limits of teaching Australian Indigenous languages in schools." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18689.

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Questa tesi tratta l’importanza e i limiti dell’educazione delle lingue Aborigene e dello Stretto di Torres nelle scuole in Australia. Le lingue Indigene in Australia hanno una storia difficile, fatta di privazioni che ne misero in pericolo la sopravvivenza. Negli scorsi decenni le lingue Aborigene sono state messe in risalto, in modo da salvarle dalla loro estinzione. Diversi programmi incoraggiano il loro insegnamento nelle scuole, tuttavia non c’è ancora una politica che lo regoli a livello nazionale. La prima parte della tesi si focalizza sulla condizione delle lingue Aborigene in Australi

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Kumar, Manoharan. "Genomics, Languages and the Prehistory of Aboriginal Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/405626.

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When European settlers first arrived in Australia in 1788, Aboriginal Australians, or Traditional Owners, spoke more than 250 languages. Indigenous Australian languages are now broadly categorised into two groups: Pama-Nyungan (PN) and Non-Pama-Nyungan (NPN) languages. PN speakers traditionally inhabited more than 90% of the land mass of mainland Australia, whereas NPN speakers traditionally occupied only 10% of the land area, and this was in the far northwest of the continent. The NPN language group in particular shows very high linguistic diversity. Studies of nuclear DNA variation can provi

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Khalid, Ruhi. "A comparative study of the self-esteem of the Pakistani minority and the indigenous children in Scotland." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 1985. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1003/.

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Ntentema, Phakamani. "The challenges in the intellectualisation of indigenous languages in post-apartheid South Africa: what will it take to give the indigenous languages a directive in the implementation and monitoring of language policy in South Africa?" Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33940.

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The language of an individual is another skin in ways that are many, a natural possession of any normal person we use to communicate our ideas and hopes, convey our beliefs and thoughts, explore our traditions and experiences, and improve the community of ours as well as the laws that regulate it. In the Bill of Rights, the right of official language selection was recognized, and the Constitution recognizes that the indigenous languages are a resource that has not been exploited. This study has been carried out to elevate the use and uplift the status of indigenous languages by examining the c

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Appelblad, Julia. ""Ty kan man sin egen historia, blir det lättare att kämpa för sin egen identitet". : En kvalitativ analys av ett samiskt perspektiv på utbildningspolitik mellan 1962-1994." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-121179.

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This thesis intends to examine a sámi perspective on Swedish educational policy between 1962 and 1994. To do so the curriculum of the Swedish schools and the sámi schools are analyzed. The sámi perspective in the thesis is represented by the debate about educational policy in a sámi journal, Samefolket.The results show that the Swedish curriculums from 1962-1994 don’t mention the sámi people and only the last one, the one from 1980, are stating shortly that groups within Sweden are to be treated with solidarity. Otherwise the sámis aren’t mentioned. In the curriculums for the sámi schools that

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Attwell, David. "Indigenous tradition and the colonial legacy : a study in the social context of anglophone African literary criticism." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7591.

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Bibliography: leaves 219-229.<br>This dissertation attempts to examine the social meanings of anglophone African literary criticism as an ideological discourse. It begins by engaging with Marxist critical traditions, with particular reference to two areas of debate: the question of the epistemological relationship between literature and criticism, and the question of criticism's being a discourse which, in its articulation with a given social context, relies on the resources of a particular critical heritage. The basis of the second and central chapter is the interrelationship between the cont

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Stacey, Bibi. "Can minority languages survive around English? : An investigation into family language policy in the UK." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-144461.

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Family language policy (FLP) focusses on how languages are dealt with within the home; typically how languages are used and how they are maintained or promoted by family members. The present study investigates families living in the UK, where one parent is a native English speaker, and the other a native speaker of another language, the minority language. By use of a mixed-methods design, utilising questionnaires, interviews and logs, this paper answers the questions: what are the reported language practices of children and parents in bi- or multilingual families, what ideologies about FLP do

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Guerrero, Becerra Maria Paula. "Acknowledging linguistic diversity in a multicultural society: the issue of indigenous languages in Colombia." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/9199/.

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Nowadays, modern society is gradually becoming multicultural. However, only in the last few years awareness on its importance has been raised. In the case of Colombia, multiculturalism has existed since the pre-Columbian period and today there are more than 80 ethnic groups and 65 indigenous languages in the country. The aim of this work is to illustrate the status of indigenous languages in Colombia and to enlighten about the importance of recognizing, protecting and strengthening the use of these native languages. Subsequent to this, it will be point out that linguistic diversity should be c

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Musau, Paul M. "The liberalization of the mass media in Africa and its impact on indigenous languages." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-92283.

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Mass communication through the print and the electronic media has not been spared by the post-Cold-War wind of change that is sweeping across Africa and the rest of the world. According to Wilcox (1974: 37), in 1974 over 70 percent of all the newspapers that were printed in Africa were government-owned; in the same year, almost all radio and T.V. stations were owned by government. In the changing socio-eonomic climate, however, a state monopoly of the mass media in many Sub- Saharan African countries is now a thing of the past (see for instance, Bourgault 1995). Where, for example, there used

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Gava, Águida Aparecida. "Plataforma Kuhi pei : proposta de um modelo de dicionário terminológico onomasiológico multilíngue para crianças, Português - Arara, Kadiwéu, Karitiana, Parintintin, Xavante, Zoró /." São José do Rio Preto : [s.n.], 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/100117.

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Orientador: Maurizio Babini<br>Banca: Maria Aparecida Barbosa<br>Banca: Marieta Prata de LIma Dias<br>Banca: Marilei Amadeu Sabino<br>Banca: Adriane Orenha Ottaiano<br>Resumo: O presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal propor um modelo de dicionário terminológico onomasiológico multilíngue para crianças, com o propósito de divulgar as línguas indígenas. Tal dicionário é composto de 258 termos da fauna brasileira, organizados em anfíbios, aves, mamíferos, peixes e répteis, com equivalentes nas línguas indígenas Arara, Kadiwéu, Karitiana, Parintintín, Xavante e Zoró. Os termos foram coletad

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Sithole, N. E. "The functional viability of Indigenous African Languages in South Africa: challenges and prospects of their survival." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1469.

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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science and Agriculture in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of General Linguistics and Modern Languages at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2015<br>This study sought to prove that indigenous African languages are not functionally viable, i.e. they do not perform an important function in the country. In this study I used literature to prove that indigenous African languages play a very little and less quintessential role in commerce, education, law and administration. I proved that the pr

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Rigo, Anna Chiara <1996&gt. "Minority and Endangered Languages in the World - International, European and National Policies to Counteract Language Death." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/20163.

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Lo scopo di questo elaborato finale è un approfondimento linguistico e, di conseguenza, culturale. Come indica il titolo, la seguente tesi magistrale vuole presentare ed esaminare la crisi linguistica che si presenta come una problematica di importante spessore filologico, ma che necessariamente e sfortunatamente conduce al verificarsi di complicazioni in molteplici culture affatto ignorabili, rappresentate principalmente dalle minoranze linguistiche estinte e di quelle in pericolo d’estinzione. Tale peggioramento della situazione che riguarda il panorama linguistico mondiale, appreso come ‘La

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Eustace, Elizabeth. "Representations of Welsh and Scottish identities : attitudes towards standardness in English and the indigenous languages." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288329.

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McManus, Hope. "Loanword Adaptation: A study of some Australian Aboriginal Languages." Thesis, Department of Linguistics, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5335.

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This thesis is a case study of some aspects of the adaptation of English words in several Australian Aboriginal languages, including Martu Wangka, Gamilaraay and Warlpiri. I frame my analysis within Smith’s (to appear) source-similarity model of loanword adaptation. This model exploits loanword-specific faithfulness constraints that impose maximal similarity between the perceived source form and its corresponding loan. Using this model, I show that the conflict of the relevant prosodic markedness constraints and loanword-specific faithfulness constraints drives adaptation. Vowel epenthesis, th

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Jamai, A. "Language use and maintenance among the Moroccan minority in Britain." Thesis, University of Salford, 2008. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/2030/.

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The goal of this study is to investigate language use among a relatively young immigrant community in Britain with a view to finding out what role English plays in their lives, whether they still use their languages of origin, and what are the reasons for their particular language behaviour. Language use and maintenance in an immigrant minority setting is an important area of investigation if one is to understand some of the factors involved in the community's integration process, or the lack of it, in general, and to appreciate the role of language for integration in particular. Minority comm

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Wingstedt, Maria. "Language Ideologies and Minority Language Policies in Sweden : historical and contemporary perspectives." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Univ, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37192765c.

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