Language shift, Diglossia and dialectal variation in Western Brittany : the case of Southern Cornouaille
Extract: [...]In the first part of this paper I trace the language shift from Breton to French within the historical, social and ideological framework in which it occurred. I then argue that 19th and 20th-century attempts by scholars and militants to rehabilitate the Breton language led to the creat...
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Universität Potsdam
2007
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| Online Access: | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19264 http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1926/ |