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Author | : Mark Janse |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027247528 |
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Languages are dying at an alarming rate all over the world. Estimates range from 50% to as much as 90% by the end of the century. This collection of original papers tries to strike a balance between theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches to language death and language maintenance. It provides overviews of language endangerment in Africa, Eurasia, and the Greater Pacific Area. It also presents case studies of endangered languages from various language families. These descriptive case studies not only provide data on the degree of endangerment and the causes of language death, but also provide a general sociolinguistic and typological characterization the language(s) under discussion and the prospects of language maintenance (if any). The volume will be of interest to all those concerned with the ongoing extinction of the world's linguistic diversity.
Author | : Mark Janse |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2003-03-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027275297 |
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Languages are dying at an alarming rate all over the world. Estimates range from 50% to as much as 90% by the end of the century. This collection of original papers tries to strike a balance between theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches to language death and language maintenance. It provides overviews of language endangerment in Africa, Eurasia, and the Greater Pacific Area. It also presents case studies of endangered languages from various language families. These descriptive case studies not only provide data on the degree of endangerment and the causes of language death, but also provide a general sociolinguistic and typological characterization the language(s) under discussion and the prospects of language maintenance (if any). The volume will be of interest to all those concerned with the ongoing extinction of the world’s linguistic diversity.
Author | : Anne Pauwels |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2016-08-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107043697 |
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A comprehensive discussion of the key aspects of this important sub-field of language contact and multilingualism studies.
Author | : David Bradley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1136852719 |
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Language endangerment is a fundamental issue for humanity. What rights do minority communities have concerning their languages? How does each language conceptualize the world differently? How much knowledge about the world and a local ecosystem is lost when a language disappears? What is the process involved and how can insights about this process contribute to linguistic theory? What typological insights will be lost if undescribed languages disappear before their unique structural properties are known? How can language shift be stopped or reversed? This volume comprises: * a general overview introduction * four theoretical chapters on what happens during language shift * ten case studies of autochthonous languages under threat * four case studies of migrant languages at risk * three concluding chapters discussing strategies and resources for language maintenance.
Author | : David Bradley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2019-11-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107041139 |
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Investigates the endangerment of languages and the loss of traditional cultural diversity, and how to respond.
Author | : Matthias Brenzinger |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2012-10-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110870606 |
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Author | : David Crystal |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2014-11-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107431816 |
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A thorough review of the worldwide problem of language endangerment and death.
Author | : Lenore A. Grenoble |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1998-03-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521597128 |
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This book provides an overview of the issues surrounding language loss. It brings together work by theoretical linguists, field linguists, and non-linguist members of minority communities to provide an integrated view of how language is lost, from sociological and economic as well as from linguistic perspectives. The contributions to the volume fall into four categories. The chapters by Dorian and Grenoble and Whaley provide an overview of language endangerment. Grinevald, England, Jacobs, and Nora and Richard Dauenhauer describe the situation confronting threatened languages from both a linguistic and sociological perspective. The understudied issue of what (beyond a linguistic system) can be lost as a language ceases to be spoken is addressed by Mithun, Hale, Jocks, and Woodbury. In the last section, Kapanga, Myers-Scotton, and Vakhtin consider the linguistic processes which underlie language attrition.
Author | : Willem Fase |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027241015 |
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The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of the book theoretical perspectives are presented, followed by linguistic, sociological and descriptive studies of languages and countries that have attracted the interest of researchers before, as well as less well known examples. Data are presented from: the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Israel, The Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Morocco, Finland, Malaysia, Germany, USA, Ireland, India, Tanzania and Australia.
Author | : Bernard C. Perley |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0803266804 |
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Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Today, indigenous communities throughout North America are grappling with the dual issues of language loss and revitalization. While many communities are making efforts to bring their traditional languages back through educational programs, for some communities these efforts are not enough or have come too late to stem the tide of language death, which occurs when there are no remaining fluent speakers and the language is no longer used in regular communication. The Maliseet language, as spoken in the Tobique First Nation of New Brunswick, Canada, is one such endangered language that will either be revitalized and survive or will die off. Defying Maliseet Language Death is an ethnographic study by Bernard C. Perley, a member of this First Nation, that examines the role of the Maliseet language and its survival in Maliseet identity processes. Perley examines what is being done to keep the Maliseet language alive, who is actively involved in these processes, and how these two factors combine to promote Maliseet language survival. He also explores questions of identity, asking the important question: “If Maliseet is no longer spoken, are we still Maliseet?” This timely volume joins the dual issues of language survival and indigenous identity to present a unique perspective on the place of language within culture.