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Heritage Languages: Extending Variationist Approaches provides a comprehensive examination of how heritage speakers—individuals raised with a language other than the dominant societal language—use and modify their ancestral languages. Naomi Nagy extends established variationist sociolinguistic methodologies to analyze language variation and change in heritage language contexts.
The book addresses key questions about heritage language transmission, maintenance, and attrition across generations. Nagy demonstrates how traditional variation studies can illuminate patterns of language use among heritage speakers, revealing the complex interplay between heritage languages and majority languages in bilingual communities.
Through detailed case studies and empirical analysis, this work contributes to sociolinguistic theory while offering insights relevant to language policy, education, and community language planning. It serves as both a theoretical contribution and a practical resource for researchers, linguists, and educators interested in understanding how language variation and change operate in heritage language communities.
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