ABSTRACT

The article studies minority language policy in the situation of an internal division within a speech community. It is based on the example of the Upper Sorbs – a Slavic minority in Germany. The division within this community is based on language use, the level of assimilation and religion. The Catholic Upper Sorbs have maintained intergenerational transmission of the language, and have a strong identity based on language use and participation in religious life. Most of the Upper Sorbian Protestants have shifted to German. Hence, the Catholic Upper Sorbs perceive themselves as ‘real’ Sorbs and – despite the decreasing number of speakers in their community – their strategy of language maintenance is through isolating themselves from German speakers. The official Sorbian language policy includes language revitalisation to increase the number of Sorbian speakers by creating new speakers of this language through bilingual education. We discuss the conflicting situation when the institutional minority language revitalisation strategy does not fit the internal ‘core’ community's language maintenance policy. The research was carried out at one of the Upper Sorbian schools with sociolinguistic observations and interviews with pupils from Sorbian-speaking families and with Sorbian learners, and on Sorbian language research revitalisation efforts.

摘要

本文研究了语音社区内部分裂情况下的少数民族语言政策。它以上索布族为例-德国斯拉夫少数民族。该社区内的划分基于语言使用，同化程度和宗教信仰。天主教上层社会保持了语言的代际传播，并基于语言的使用和对宗教生活的参与而具有强烈的认同感。大多数上索布族新教徒已转向德国人。因此，天主教上层社会人士将自己视为“真正的”社会性质人士，尽管社区中的发言者人数有所减少，但他们的语言维护策略是通过将自己与德语国家隔离开来。官方的索比亚语言政策包括语言振兴，以通过双语教育建立新的以该语言为母语的人，从而增加说Sorbian语言的人数。我们讨论了少数群体语言振兴战略不适合内部“核心”社区的语言维护政策时的冲突情况。这项研究是在索尔比亚上一所学校中进行的，他们进行了社会语言学观察，并对来自说索尔比亚语的家庭的学生和索尔比亚学习者进行了访谈，并就索尔比亚语言研究的振兴做出了努力。的语言维护政策。这项研究是在上索尔比亚的一所学校中进行的，他们进行了社会语言学的观察，并对来自会说索尔比亚语的家庭的学生和索尔比亚语的学习者进行了采访，并对索尔比亚语的语言研究进行了振兴。的语言维护政策。这项研究是在上索尔比亚的一所学校中进行的，他们进行了社会语言学的观察，并对来自会说索尔比亚语的家庭的学生和索尔比亚语的学习者进行了采访，并对索尔比亚语的语言研究进行了振兴。