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Reversing Language Shift
Author | : Joshua A. Fishman |
Publsiher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1853591211 |
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This book is about the theory and practice of assistance to speech-communities whose native languages are threatened because their intergenerational continuity is proceeding negatively, with fewer and fewer speakers (or readers, writers and even understanders) every generation.
Can Threatened Languages be Saved
Author | : Joshua A. Fishman |
Publsiher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 185359492X |
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Defenders of threatened languages all over the world, from advocates of biodiversity to dedicated defenders of their own cultural authenticity, are often humbled by the dimensity of the task that they are faced with when the weak and the few seek to find a safe-harbour against the ravages of the strong and the many. This book provides both practical case studies and theoretical directions from all five continents and advances thereby the collective pursuit of "reversing language shift" for the greater benefit of cultural democracy everywhere.
Language Maintenance and Shift
Author | : Anne Pauwels |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2016-08-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781107043695 |
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A comprehensive discussion of the key aspects of this important sub-field of language contact and multilingualism studies.
The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Author | : Tej K. Bhatia,William C. Ritchie |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 978 |
Release | : 2014-09-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781118941270 |
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**Honored as a 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title** Comprising state-of-the-art research, this substantially expanded and revised Handbook discusses the latest global and interdisciplinary issues across bilingualism and multilingualism. Includes the addition of ten new authors to the contributor team, and coverage of seven new topics ranging from global media to heritage language learning Provides extensively revised coverage of bilingual and multilingual communities, polyglot aphasia, creolization, indigenization, linguistic ecology and endangered languages, multilingualism, and forensic linguistics Brings together a global team of internationally-renowned researchers from different disciplines Covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from neuro- and psycho-linguistic research to studies of media and psychological counseling Assesses the latest issues in worldwide linguistics, including the phenomena and the conceptualization of 'hyperglobalization', and emphasizes geographical centers of global conflict and commerce
The Languages of Israel
Author | : Bernard Spolsky,Elana Goldberg Shohamy |
Publsiher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1853594512 |
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The practice and ideology of the treatment of the languages of Israel are examined in this book. It asks about the extent to which the present linguistic pattern may be attribited to explicit language planning activities.
Revitalization Lexicography
Author | : Patricia Anderson |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2020-11-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816539598 |
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In a linguistic climate that is hyperaware of so-called language death, dictionaries have been touted as stalwarts for language preservation. When wielded by communities undertaking language revitalization, dictionaries can be designed to facilitate reversing language shift and fostering linguistic innovation. Indeed, dictionaries’ reputation as multifunctional reference materials make them adaptable to a wide variety of community needs. Revitalization Lexicography provides a detailed account of creating a dictionary meant to move a once-sleeping language into a language of active daily use. This unique look under the hood of lexicography in a small community highlights the ways in which the dictionary was intentionally leveraged to shape the Tunica language as it inevitably changes throughout revitalization. Tunica, one of the heritage languages of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Marksville, Louisiana, has been undergoing active revitalization since 2010. The current generation of speakers began learning Tunica, a once-sleeping language, through written documentation. Now enough Tunica speakers to confer amongst themselves when questionable language use arises. Marrying both the theoretical and the practical aspects that contributed to the Tunica dictionary, this book discusses complex lexicographic tasks in a manner accessible to both academic and community readers. This work is firmly backdropped in a fieldwork approach that centers the community as owners of all aspects of their revitalization project. This book provides concrete and practical considerations for anyone attempting to create a dictionary. Contrasting examples from Tunica and English dictionaries, this book challenges readers to rethink their relationship to dictionaries in general. A must-read for anyone who has ever touched a dictionary.
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.
Attitudes to Endangered Languages
Author | : Julia Sallabank |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2013-12-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781107655881 |
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Language attitudes and ideologies are of key importance in assessing the chances of success of revitalisation efforts for endangered languages. However, few book-length studies relate attitudes to language policies, or address the changing attitudes of non-speakers and the motivations of members of language movements. Through a combination of ethnographic research and quantitative surveys, this book presents an in-depth study of revitalisation efforts for indigenous languages in three small islands round the British Isles. The author identifies and confronts key issues commonly faced by practitioners and researchers working in small language communities with little institutional support. This book explores the complex relationship of ideologies, identity and language-related beliefs and practices, and examines the implications of these factors for language revitalisation measures. Essential reading for researchers interested in language endangerment and revitalisation, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and language policy and planning, as well as language planners and campaigners.