The authors reject the "backward-looking preservationist" perspective, which seeks to maintaindiglossiaby keeping indigenous languages within their traditional domains.
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He then discusses some instances of standardization,diglossia, and digraphia, all of which divide and stratify people in cer tain ways in indigenous contexts.
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The editors not only provide a history of the term but also remind students of the disagreement and confusion about the meaning ofdiglossia.
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Such convergence is not surprising when one recalls thatdiglossiais a case of prolonged contact between two varieties of the same language.
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Indiglossia, code alteration is largely of the situational type.
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Here it is helpful to draw a distinction betweendiglossiaand code switching.
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Although speakers indiglossiasituations must know more than one grammatical system to carry on their daily affairs, only one code is employed at any one time.
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Diglossiais a type of relationship in which two (or more) languages are used in a complementary distribution of domains.
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Fishman (1967) refines thinking ondiglossiaby noting thatdiglossiacould develop with or without widespread bilingualism in a community.
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Coulmas questions whether a genetic relationship between languages is a requirement fordiglossia.
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Diglossiaalludes to a historical process that involves consideration of at least two languages in conflict.
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Diglossiais associated with another complication.
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Arabic is a clear case ofdiglossia.
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Where there is a strong divergence, the language is said to exhibitdiglossia.
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When one or more registers of a language come to be strongly divergent from spoken language, the resulting situation is calleddiglossia.
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