Why Language Documentation Matters - 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 Why Language Documentation Matters write by Shobhana L. Chelliah. This book was released on 2021-01-22. Why Language Documentation Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers the latest insights on language documentation, a reborn, refashioned, and reenergized subfield of linguistics motivated by the urgent task of creating a record of the world’s fast disappearing languages. Language documentation provides data to challenge and improve existing linguistic theory. In addition, because it requires input from various fields to be comprehensive, language documentation serves to build bridges between linguistics and other disciplines. Language documentation also provides resources for communities interested in language and culture preservation, language maintenance, and language revitalization. This book informs, evokes interest, and encourages involvement at all levels.
Language Documentation
Language Documentation - 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 Documentation write by Lenore A. Grenoble. This book was released on 2010. Language Documentation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Language documentation," also often called "documentary linguistics," is a relatively new subfield in linguistics which has emerged in part as a response to the pressing need for collecting, describing, and archiving material on the increasing number of endangered languages. The present book details the most recent developments in this rapidly developing field with papers written by linguists primarily based in academic institutions in North America, although many conduct their fieldwork elsewhere. The articles in this volume position papers and case studies focus on some of the most critical issues in the field. These include (1) the nature of contributions to linguistic theory and method provided by documentary linguistics, including the content appropriate for documentation; (2) the impact and demands of technology in documentation; (3) matters of practice in collaborations among linguists and communities, and in the necessary training of students and community members to conduct documentation activities; and (4) the ethical issues involved in documentary linguistics."
Keeping Languages Alive
Keeping Languages Alive - 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 Keeping Languages Alive write by Mari C. Jones. This book was released on 2013-12-12. Keeping Languages Alive available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores current efforts to record, collect and archive endangered languages which are in danger of falling silent.
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.
Revitalizing Endangered Languages
Revitalizing 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 Revitalizing Endangered Languages write by Justyna Olko. This book was released on 2021-01-31. Revitalizing Endangered Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Of the approximately 7,000 languages in the world, at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of the twenty-first century. Languages are endangered by a number of factors, including globalization, education policies, and the political, economic and cultural marginalization of minority groups. This guidebook provides ideas and strategies, as well as some background, to help with the effective revitalization of endangered languages. It covers a broad scope of themes including effective planning, benefits, wellbeing, economic aspects, attitudes and ideologies. The chapter authors have hands-on experience of language revitalization in many countries around the world, and each chapter includes a wealth of examples, such as case studies from specific languages and language areas. Clearly and accessibly written, it is suitable for non-specialists as well as academic researchers and students interested in language revitalization. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
