Responses to 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 Responses to Language Endangerment write by Elena Mihas. This book was released on 2013-11-15. Responses to Language Endangerment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume further complicates and advances the contemporary perspective on language endangerment by examining the outcomes of the most commonly cited responses to language endangerment, i.e. language documentation, language revitalization, and training. The present collection takes stock of many complex and pressing issues, such as the assessment of the degree of language endangerment, the contribution of linguistic scholarship to language revitalization programs, the creation of successful language reclamation programs, the emergence of languages that arise as a result of revitalization efforts after interrupted transmission, the ethics of fieldwork, and the training of field linguists and language educators. The volume’s case studies provide detailed personal accounts of fieldworkers and language activists who are grappling with issues of language documentation and revitalization in the concrete physical and socio-cultural settings of native speaker communities in different regions of the world.
Endangered Languages
Endangered Languages - 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 Endangered Languages write by Lenore A. Grenoble. This book was released on 1998-03-26. Endangered Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Attitudes to Endangered Languages
Attitudes to Endangered Languages - 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 Attitudes to Endangered Languages write by Julia Sallabank. This book was released on 2013-12-19. Attitudes to Endangered Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An in-depth study of endangered language revitalisation, which assesses the implications of changing language attitudes for language campaigners and policy-makers.
Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger
Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger - 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 Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger write by Luna Filipović. This book was released on 2016-10-03. Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This peer-reviewed collection brings together the latest research on language endangerment and language rights. It creates a vibrant, interdisciplinary platform for the discussion of the most pertinent and urgent topics central to vitality and equality of languages in today’s globalised world. The novelty of the volume lies in the multifaceted view on the variety of dangers that languages face today, such as extinction through dwindling speaker populations and lack of adequate preservation policies or inequality in different social contexts (e.g. access to justice, education and research resources). There are examples of both loss and survival, and discussion of multiple factors that condition these two different outcomes. We pose and answer difficult questions such as whether forced interventions in preventing loss are always warranted or indeed viable. The emerging shared perspective is that of hope to inspire action towards improving the position of different languages and their speakers through research of this kind.
The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages
The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages - 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 The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages write by Peter K. Austin. This book was released on 2011-03-24. The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
