noun
Meaning 1
The levels of official use or representation of languages that are perceived not to reflect their use in the population.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 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.
- 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.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided