Das Kaschubische: Sprachtod Oder Revitalisierung? Empirische Studien Zur Ethnolinguistischen Vitalität Einer Sprachminderheit in Polen

Marlena Porebska. Das Kaschubische: Sprachtod oder Revitalisierung? Empirische Studien zur ethnolinguistischen Vitalitat einer Sprachminderheit in Polen. Slavistische Beitrage, 452. Munich: Verlag Otto Sagner, 2006. 272 pp. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index of Tables. Appendix (questionnaire and list of variables). euro26.00, paper.Written in German and titled Kashubian: Language Death or Revitalization? Empirical Studies on the Ethnolinguistic Vitality of Linguistic Minority in Poland, this book is the published version of doctoral dissertation submitted by Marlena Porebska the faculty of the Institute of Slavic Studies at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. It presents the results of questionnaire-based fieldwork conducted by the author (a learner of Kashubian) in 2003 and 2005. It is perhaps the first comprehensive, book-length study of since the publication of the volume Kaszubszczyzna/Kaszebizna (edited by Edward Breza) in the series Najnowsze dzieje jezykow slowianskich by the University of Opole (Poland) in 2001.Porebska seeks determine here the of the ethnolect and the speech community on the basis of criteria put forth in an essay by H. Giles, R. Bourhis, and D. Taylor, Towards Theory of Language in Ethnic Group Relations, in Language, Ethnicity andlntergroup Relations (H. Giles, ed. London, 1977, pp. 307-348). Ethnolinguistic vitality is defined as which makes group likely behave as distinctive and active collective entity in intergroup situations (Giles et al., p. 308, cited by Porebska, p. 28). It is measured on 5-point scale of high, medium-high, medium, medium-low, and rankings. Factors considered in determining ethnolinguistic vitality include demography (both numerical and distributional), institutional support and control (education, culture, religion, mass media, etc.), and status (socio-historical, economic, social, and linguistic [both local and international]). The overall vitality of Anglo-American, for example, is rated high; that of Canadian French-medium-high; and that of Welsh-medium (p. 25). Porebska concludes that the overall ethnolinguistic vitality of is likewise medium (pp. 76-77). Although for most Kashubes still exists only as spoken language (p. 104; codified literary language remains in statu nascendi more than 160 years since the initial creation of alphabet in 1843 [p. 47]), Porebska believes that her prove that transmission of the language from one generation the next has not been interrupted and that Kashubian is far from dying out (p. 77; translation mine-GHT). She does not, however, inquire into the actual quality or degree of Kashubian's intergenerational transmission.Readers seeking learn the current number of Kashubian-speakers will be disappointed by this book. Although Porebska accepts the view that there are around 368,000 ethnic Kashubes and 119,000 semi-Kashubes in Poland today (p. 57), she stops short of estimating the number of people who actually speak Kashubian. Here the figures vary wildly: among the 32 estimates of the number of Kashubes and/or Kashubian-speakers cited by Porebska, those published after 1990 range from low of 4,500 speakers high of 350,000 (p. 56). According the Internet Web site UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages. Europe first compiled by Tapani Salminen in 1993 (), has only a few thousand speakers; reports of over 100,000 speakers are false and based on the number of ethnic Kashubians, [the] great majority of whom speak regional variant of Polish (Web p. 17). In stark contrast, Brunon Synak, in his contribution the above-mentioned Kaszubszczyzna/Kaszebizna volume, persists in citing doubtless highly inflated estimate of 250,000-300,000 speakers of that another scholar proposed as long ago as 1990; even so, Synak himself feels the need to underscore the conjectural nature of these data (podkreslic szacunkowy charakter tych danych-Wspotczesne funkcjonowanie kaszubszczyzny in Breza, ed. …

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