Between language revitalization and assimilation: On the language situation of the German minority in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68407700:21630/18:00328823

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jnmlp-2018-0007" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jnmlp-2018-0007</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jnmlp-2018-0007" target="_blank" >10.2478/jnmlp-2018-0007</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Between language revitalization and assimilation: On the language situation of the German minority in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Language preservation is considered to be one of the central missions of ethnic groups. For the German minority in the Czech Republic too, language plays an important role in group identity. Its current language situation is a result of the negative historic developments after World War II and under the communist regime. Due to the forced resettlement of most German-speaking inhabitants and the subsequent assimilation policies of the communist regime, the German community underwent strong cultural and language assimilation, which is also attested by the steady decline of its membership. The study focuses on issues of the language situation of the German minority and the revitalization efforts that have been undertaken by its elite in cooperation with other relevant institutions. A research survey of the main representatives of the minority and its regional associations demonstrates their evaluations of the ways in which German language is currently used and promoted in the Czech Republic, and it also

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Nationalism Memory and Language Politics

ISSN

2570-5857

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

121-139

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85054689625