Language Death and Language Maintenance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Death and Language Maintenance write by Mark Janse. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Language Death and Language Maintenance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance
Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance write by David Bradley. This book was released on 2013-12-16. Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Language Maintenance and Shift
Language Maintenance and Shift - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Maintenance and Shift write by Anne Pauwels. This book was released on 2016-08-18. Language Maintenance and Shift available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive discussion of the key aspects of this important sub-field of language contact and multilingualism studies.
Language Death
Language Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Death write by Matthias Brenzinger. This book was released on 2012-10-25. Language Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Language Endangerment
Language Endangerment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Endangerment write by David Bradley. This book was released on 2019-11-21. Language Endangerment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Investigates the endangerment of languages and the loss of traditional cultural diversity, and how to respond.
