Linguistic change in youth: moments and factors
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https://doi.org/10.32766/cdl.38.753Keywords:
linguistic change, biographical narrative, young people, linguistic policyAbstract
This paper explores, using semi-structured interviews, the biographical narratives of seventeen young Galician men and women in search of linguistic changes (Pujolar [et al.] 2010) aiming to understand which are the life moments and factors that favour changes in linguistic uses, so that normalizing actions and linguistic policies planification could be improved. The analysis of the life trajectories of the interviewees, grouped by initial language, is done in a systematic way, paying attention to family and geographical context, education, entering the world of work and linguistic attitudes. In the final conclusions, life moments and factors that seem to favour linguistic changes (if these take place) are presented, including some aspects to which normalizing actions and linguistic policies should pay more attention.
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