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Author | : Claude Hagège |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0300137338 |
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Twenty-five languages die each year; at this pace, half the world’s five thousand languages will disappear within the next century. In this timely book, Claude Hagège seeks to make clear the magnitude of the cultural loss represented by the crisis of language death. By focusing on the relationship of language to culture and the world of ideas, Hagège shows how languages are themselves crucial repositories of culture; the traditions, proverbs, and knowledge of our ancestors reside in the language we use. His wide-ranging examination covers all continents and language families to uncover not only how languages die, but also how they can be revitalized—for example in the remarkable case of Hebrew. In a striking metaphor, Hagège likens languages to bonfires of social behavior that leave behind sparks even after they die; from these sparks languages can be rekindled and made to live again.
Author | : William Labov |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2013-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107033349 |
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Labov extends his widely used framework for narrative analysis to matters of greatest human concern: accounts of the danger of death, violence, premonitions, and large-scale community conflicts. This book provides a rich range of narratives that grip the reader's attention together with an analysis of how it is done.
Author | : Nancy C. Dorian |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1512815586 |
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author | : Don Kulick |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2019-06-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 161620947X |
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“Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.” —The Wall Street Journal “If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excellent choice.” —The Washington Post One of Time’s 32 Books You Need to Read This Summer * One of National Geographic’s Best Travel Books of Summer As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He arrived knowing that you can’t study a language without understanding the daily lives of the people who speak it: how they talk to their children, how they argue, how they gossip, how they joke. Over the course of thirty years, as he returned again and again to document the vanishing language, he found himself inexorably drawn into the lives and world of the Gapuners, and implicated in their destiny. In A Death in the Rainforest, Kulick takes us inside the village as he came to know it, revealing what it is like to live in a difficult-to-get-to village of two hundred people, carved out like a cleft in the middle of a tropical rainforest. And in doing so, he also gives us a brilliant interrogation of what it means to study a culture, an illuminating look at the impact of Western culture on the farthest reaches of the globe—and, ultimately, the story of why this anthropologist realized that he had to give up his study of this language and this village.
Author | : David Crystal |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2002-04-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521012713 |
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The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropologists but among all concerned with issues of cultural identity in an increasingly globalized culture. By some counts, only 600 of the 6,000 or so languages in the world are 'safe' from the threat of extinction. A leading commentator and popular writer on language issues, David Crystal asks the fundamental question, 'Why is language death so important?', reviews the reasons for the current crisis, and investigates what is being done to reduce its impact. This 2002 book contains not only intelligent argument, but moving descriptions of the decline and demise of particular languages, and practical advice for anyone interested in pursuing the subject further.
Author | : Evelyn Fox Keller |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1317857208 |
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First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Stephen Levine |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1989-02-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0385262191 |
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A guide to healing meditation, from revered teacher Stephen Levine. Drawing on years of first-hand experience working with the chronically ill, here Levine presents original techniques for working with pain and grief. Addressing the choice and application of treatment, discussing the development of a merciful awareness as a means of healing, and providing practical meditation techniques as well as personal anecdotes from his career, Levine has crafted a valuable resource for anyone dealing with pain—physical or mental.
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 | : Robin Conley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199334161 |
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"Confronting the Death Penalty probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods, Robin Conley explores the means through which language helps to make death penalty decisions possible - how specific linguistic choices mediate and restrict jurors', attorneys', and judges' actions and experiences while serving and reflecting on capital trials."--Provided by publisher.
Author | : K. David Harrison |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0195372069 |
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It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. This text focuses on the question: what is lost when a language dies?