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Life Post 9/11: Experiences Of Korean Americans Ten Years Later, Jay Lee
Life Post 9/11: Experiences Of Korean Americans Ten Years Later, Jay Lee
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This is one of the first qualitative studies to investigate experiences of Korean-American Christians living in New York City at the time of 9/11. This study sought to gain an understanding of how a group of Second Generation Korean-American Christians living in New York City at the time of the 9/11 attacks experienced that event and the event's impact on their religious beliefs. The study also investigated the communication context at the time of the ten year anniversary of the event, September 11th, 2011. The guiding research questions were: RQ1) What were their life experiences of 9/11? RQ2) Was their …
Language Shift And Development: A Case Study Of Zhongdian Southern Khams Language Vitality, Simon Peters
Language Shift And Development: A Case Study Of Zhongdian Southern Khams Language Vitality, Simon Peters
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The fields of language endangerment and maintenance address language shift overwhelmingly in the context of a local language being replaced by that of a surrounding oppositional dominant cultural group. There are, though, situations in which a local language is competing with the dominant variety of the wider cultural group to which it belongs. How a situation like this is dealt with by linguists and language planners depends largely on the recognition of participant tongues as their own languages or one as a dialect of another. Reversing language shift for a “dialect” is difficult to garnish institutional and financial support for …