B) English or other ‘killer languages’ can threaten local languages and cause language shift and even death. However, this threat can paradoxically lead to language revival and maintenance. Using two case studies, explain how these two processes can occur, with reference to Foucault’s notion of power/knowledge and resistance, and the following questions:
• What are some of the political, social or economic reasons why people abandon their languages in favour of others?
• What is the role of language in the construction of local, regional, or national identities?
• What social or political strategies can individuals or groups use to resist language shift and death?
When language communities face any language contact situations, different linguistic processes can occur, being the most common language shift and language death, usually of the language community less powerfull. Althought sometimes this contact can, on the other hand, relults in language maintenance......
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