linguistic imbalance

Example Sentences

• "Before the emergence of democracy in South Africa, the apartheid regime had brought linguistic imbalance."
• "We can then generalise and say that where there is a situation of domination and subordination, between any two groups, whatever their colour or religion, this will be reflected in the language relationship. Unfortunately the linguistic imbalance of power takes a life of its own and may continue even after the underlying economic and political situation has changed."
• "2011 Pierre Anctil, "Reasonable Accommodation in the Canadian Legal Context: A Mechanism for Managing Diversity or a Source of Tension?" in H. Adelman and P. Anctil, eds., Religion, Culture, and the State: Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Report, University of Toronto Press, 2011. Being vulnerable as an official language minority within the Canadian federation, the Québec francophones thus reaffirmed their commitment to the values of pluralism and diversity while also taking measures to prevent the worsening, through the anglicization of immigrants, of the existing historical linguistic imbalance within Canada."
• "2012 J. McDonagh, et al, "Sustainability and Getting the Balance Right in Rural Ireland," in T. Varley et al, eds., A Living Countryside?: The Politics of Sustainable Development in Rural Ireland, Business and Economics, 2012. Linguistic imbalance, reflecting and [sic] the growing dominance of English and the continuing decline of Irish, are addressed in Mac Donnacha and Ó Giollagáin's paper where the nature of this decline, its extent and attempts at countering it are all explored."
• "Such dominance by one language has implications for other, less widely spoken languages; it also produces another kind of linguistic imbalance, as foreign language learning among native English speakers is in decline, a fact that has serious implications for the future."
• "2014 M. Bielenia-Grajewska, "Linguicism," in L.H. Cousins, ed., Encyclopedia of Human Services and Diversity, Sage Publications, 2014. Another type is informational linguicism, which is connected with limited access to information caused by linguistic imbalance in a given setting."