Czynniki wpływające na przekazywanie języka mniejszościowego. Postawy wobec języka i ideologie językowe w narracjach rodziny z Górnych Łużyc

Sara Mičkec

doi:10.32798/zl.715

Published: 2022-01-22

Vol. 56 No. 2 (2021)

Factors influencing minority language transmission. Linguistic attitudes and ideologies in the narratives of a family in Upper Lusatia

Sara Mičkec

Zeszyty Łużyckie

Section: Sorabiana

https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.715

Abstract

The transmission of languages in multilingual majority-minority contexts is influenced by language ideologies and language attitudes. In this paper I explore language ideologies in the Upper Sorbian Catholic community and language practices related to them. Based on biographic interviews with members of a linguistically mixed family, I also ask about the impact of overt strategies in everyday language choices. The family in question came to adopt a conscious family language policy based on the members’ positive attitudes towards Sorbian and based on their consciousness about community language practices that hamper the transmission of Sorbian in linguistically mixed environments. A positive attitude towards the minority language is a necessary, but not sufficient prerequisite to question habitual community language practices and consciously modify them. The families’ language behavior suggests that consciously modified language practices are adopted in certain domains, in this case mainly in that of the home.

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language ideologies, language attitudes, minority language transmission, family language policy

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Mičkec, S. (2022). Factors influencing minority language transmission. Linguistic attitudes and ideologies in the narratives of a family in Upper Lusatia. Zeszyty Łużyckie, 56(2), 99–129. https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.715

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Sara Mičkec

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0300-8687

Affiliation:

Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavic Studies Poland

Bio Statement:

Sara Mičkec, PhD candidate at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, in the framework of the project Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies in the Humanities: Borderlands, Minorities and Migrations in a Sociolinguistic Perspective, implemented under the Knowledge Education Development Operational Programme. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, family language policy, minority languages in Europe, the Sorbian languages, and multilingualism.