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In determining the outcome of language contact situations and the survival prospects of minority languages, early studies on language maintenance and shift tended to implicate macro-social events as direct causes of survival or decline (see Fishman 1976a; Weinreich 1968). However, later research has highlighted that it is only through an analysis of the interpretative filter of beliefs about language that the effects of macro-social factors can be assessed (Mertz 1989: 109).
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O’Rourke, B. (2011). Language Attitudes. In: Galician and Irish in the European Context. Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230294820_2
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