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Language Diversity Endangered
Author | : Matthias Brenzinger |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2015-07-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110905694 |
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This book presents a comprehensive overview of endangered languages with a global coverage. It features such well-known specialists as Michael Krauss, Willem F. H. Adelaar, Denny Moore, Colette Grinevald, Akira Yamamoto, Roger Blench, Bruce Connell, Tapani Salminen, Olga Kazakevich, Aleksandr Kibrik, Jonathan Owens, David Bradley, George van Driem, Nicholas Evans, Stephen A. Wurm, Darrell Tryon and Matthias Brenzinger. The contributions are unique in analysing the present extent and the various kinds of language endangerment by applying shared general indicators for the assessment of language endangerment. Apart from presenting the specific situations of language endangerment at the sub-continental level, the volume discusses major issues that bear universally on language endangerment. The actual study of endangered languages is carefully examined, for example, against the ethics and pragmatics of fieldwork. Practical aspects of community involvement in language documentation are discussed, such as the setting up of local archives and the training of local linguists. Numerous case studies illustrate different language shift environments with specific replacing factors, such as colonial and religious conquests, migrations and governmental language education. The book is of interest to students and scholars of linguistics with particular focus on endangered languages (and their documentation), typology, and sociolinguistics as well as to anthropologists and language activists.
Endangered Languages
Author | : Lenore A. Grenoble,Lindsay J. Whaley |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1998-03-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521597129 |
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Provides an overview of the issues surrounding language loss.
Language Diversity in the Pacific
Author | : Denis Cunningham,D. E. Ingram,Kenneth Sumbuk |
Publsiher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781853598678 |
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The Southwest Pacific from Southern China through Indonesia, Australia and the Pacific Islands constitutes the richest linguistic region of the world. That rich resource cannot be taken for granted. Some of its languages have already been lost; many more are under threat. The challenge is to describe the languages that exist today and to adopt policies that will support their maintenance.
Sustaining Linguistic Diversity
Author | : Kendall A. King,Natalie Schilling,Lyn Wright Fogle,Jia Jackie Lou,Barbara Soukup |
Publsiher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2008-03-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781589014169 |
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In the last three decades the field of endangered and minority languages has evolved rapidly, moving from the initial dire warnings of linguists to a swift increase in the number of organizations, funding programs, and community-based efforts dedicated to documentation, maintenance, and revitalization. Sustaining Linguistic Diversity brings together cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work from leading researchers and practitioners in the field. Together, these contributions provide a state-of-the-art overview of current work in defining, documenting, and developing the world's smaller languages and language varieties. The book begins by grappling with how we define endangerment—how languages and language varieties are best classified, what the implications of such classifications are, and who should have the final say in making them. The contributors then turn to the documentation and description of endangered languages and focus on best practices, methods and goals in documentation, and on current field reports from around the globe. The latter part of the book analyzes current practices in developing endangered languages and dialects and particular language revitalization efforts and outcomes in specific locations. Concluding with critical calls from leading researchers in the field to consider the human lives at stake, Sustaining Linguistic Diversity reminds scholars, researchers, practitioners, and educators that linguistic diversity can only be sustained in a world where diversity in all its forms is valued.
The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages
Author | : Peter K. Austin,Julia Sallabank |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 581 |
Release | : 2011-03-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781139500838 |
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It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This state-of-the-art Handbook examines the reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document and support endangered languages. The volume is relevant not only to researchers in language endangerment, language shift and language death, but to anyone interested in the languages and cultures of the world. It is accessible both to specialists and non-specialists: researchers will find cutting-edge contributions from acknowledged experts in their fields, while students, activists and other interested readers will find a wealth of readable yet thorough and up-to-date information.
Undescribed and Endangered Languages
Author | : Amedeo De Dominicis |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2009-03-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781443809283 |
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The book is devoted to linguistic and phonetic analysis of some undescribed and endangered languages. It collects the Proceedings of the international conference on “Undescribed and endangered languages: the preservation of linguistic diversity” held in University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), on September 29, 2005. Papers are by Roberto Ajello (Pisa), Amedeo De Dominicis (Viterbo), Maurizio Gnerre (Napoli), Antonino Melis (N’Djamena). It will appeal to linguists, phoneticians and phonologists as a contribution to the debate it discusses and it will be welcomed by a wide range of students and researchers as an ideal overview of recent works.
Sustaining Linguistic Diversity
Author | : Kendall A. King,Natalie Schilling-Estes,Lyn Wright Fogle,Jia J Lou,Barbara Soukup |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES |
ISBN | : 1461913748 |
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In the last three decades the field of endangered and minority languages has evolved rapidly, moving from the initial dire warnings of linguists to a swift increase in the number of organizations, funding programs, and community-based efforts dedicated to documentation, maintenance, and revitalization. "Sustaining Linguistic Diversity" brings together cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work from leading researchers and practitioners in the field. Together, these contributions provide a state-of-the-art overview of current work in defining, documenting, and developing the world's smaller languages and language varieties. The book begins by grappling with how we define endangerment -- how languages and language varieties are best classified, what the implications of such classifications are, and who should have the final say in making them. The contributors then turn to the documentation and description of endangered languages and focus on best practices, methods and goals in documentation, and on current field reports from around the globe. The latter part of the book analyzes current practices in developing endangered languages and dialects and particular language revitalization efforts and outcomes in specific locations. Concluding with critical calls from leading researchers in the field to consider the human lives at stake, "Sustaining Linguistic Diversity" reminds scholars, researchers, practitioners, and educators that linguistic diversity can only be sustained in a world where diversity in all its forms is valued.
Revitalizing Endangered Languages
Author | : Justyna Olko,Julia Sallabank |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2021-04-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781108485753 |
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Written by leading international scholars and activists, this guidebook provides ideas and strategies to support language revitalization.