Language Diversity Endangered
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Language Diversity Endangered
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Author : Matthias Brenzinger
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2015-07-31
Language Diversity Endangered written by Matthias Brenzinger and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book presents a comprehensive overview of endangered languages with a global coverage. It features such well-known specialists as Michael Krauss, Willem F. H. Adelaar, Denny Moore, Colette Grinevald, Akira Yamamoto, Roger Blench, Bruce Connell, Tapani Salminen, Olga Kazakevich, Aleksandr Kibrik, Jonathan Owens, David Bradley, George van Driem, Nicholas Evans, Stephen A. Wurm, Darrell Tryon and Matthias Brenzinger. The contributions are unique in analysing the present extent and the various kinds of language endangerment by applying shared general indicators for the assessment of language endangerment. Apart from presenting the specific situations of language endangerment at the sub-continental level, the volume discusses major issues that bear universally on language endangerment. The actual study of endangered languages is carefully examined, for example, against the ethics and pragmatics of fieldwork. Practical aspects of community involvement in language documentation are discussed, such as the setting up of local archives and the training of local linguists. Numerous case studies illustrate different language shift environments with specific replacing factors, such as colonial and religious conquests, migrations and governmental language education. The book is of interest to students and scholars of linguistics with particular focus on endangered languages (and their documentation), typology, and sociolinguistics as well as to anthropologists and language activists.
Sustaining Linguistic Diversity
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Author : Kendall A. King
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2008-03-06
Sustaining Linguistic Diversity written by Kendall A. King and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In the last three decades the field of endangered and minority languages has evolved rapidly, moving from the initial dire warnings of linguists to a swift increase in the number of organizations, funding programs, and community-based efforts dedicated to documentation, maintenance, and revitalization. Sustaining Linguistic Diversity brings together cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work from leading researchers and practitioners in the field. Together, these contributions provide a state-of-the-art overview of current work in defining, documenting, and developing the world's smaller languages and language varieties. The book begins by grappling with how we define endangerment—how languages and language varieties are best classified, what the implications of such classifications are, and who should have the final say in making them. The contributors then turn to the documentation and description of endangered languages and focus on best practices, methods and goals in documentation, and on current field reports from around the globe. The latter part of the book analyzes current practices in developing endangered languages and dialects and particular language revitalization efforts and outcomes in specific locations. Concluding with critical calls from leading researchers in the field to consider the human lives at stake, Sustaining Linguistic Diversity reminds scholars, researchers, practitioners, and educators that linguistic diversity can only be sustained in a world where diversity in all its forms is valued.
Language Diversity In The Pacific
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Author : Denis Cunningham
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Language Diversity In The Pacific written by Denis Cunningham and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Southwest Pacific from Southern China through Indonesia, Australia and the Pacific Islands constitutes the richest linguistic region of the world. That rich resource cannot be taken for granted. Some of its languages have already been lost; many more are under threat. The challenge is to describe the languages that exist today and to adopt policies that will support their maintenance.
Sustaining Linguistic Diversity
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Author : Kendall A. King
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-14
Sustaining Linguistic Diversity written by Kendall A. King and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES categories.
In the last three decades the field of endangered and minority languages has evolved rapidly, moving from the initial dire warnings of linguists to a swift increase in the number of organizations, funding programs, and community-based efforts dedicated to documentation, maintenance, and revitalization. "Sustaining Linguistic Diversity" brings together cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work from leading researchers and practitioners in the field. Together, these contributions provide a state-of-the-art overview of current work in defining, documenting, and developing the world's smaller languages and language varieties. The book begins by grappling with how we define endangerment -- how languages and language varieties are best classified, what the implications of such classifications are, and who should have the final say in making them. The contributors then turn to the documentation and description of endangered languages and focus on best practices, methods and goals in documentation, and on current field reports from around the globe. The latter part of the book analyzes current practices in developing endangered languages and dialects and particular language revitalization efforts and outcomes in specific locations. Concluding with critical calls from leading researchers in the field to consider the human lives at stake, "Sustaining Linguistic Diversity" reminds scholars, researchers, practitioners, and educators that linguistic diversity can only be sustained in a world where diversity in all its forms is valued.
Undescribed And Endangered Languages
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Author : Amedeo De Dominicis
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-03-26
Undescribed And Endangered Languages written by Amedeo De Dominicis and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The book is devoted to linguistic and phonetic analysis of some undescribed and endangered languages. It collects the Proceedings of the international conference on “Undescribed and endangered languages: the preservation of linguistic diversity” held in University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), on September 29, 2005. Papers are by Roberto Ajello (Pisa), Amedeo De Dominicis (Viterbo), Maurizio Gnerre (Napoli), Antonino Melis (N’Djamena). It will appeal to linguists, phoneticians and phonologists as a contribution to the debate it discusses and it will be welcomed by a wide range of students and researchers as an ideal overview of recent works.
Linguistic Diversity And The Preservation Of Endangered Languages
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Author : Mark Turin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Linguistic Diversity And The Preservation Of Endangered Languages written by Mark Turin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Anthropological linguistics categories.
Vanishing Voices
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Author : Daniel Nettle
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2000-07-27
Vanishing Voices written by Daniel Nettle and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Few people know that nearly one hundred native languages once spoken in what is now California are near extinction, or that most of Australia's 250 aboriginal languages have vanished. In fact, at least half of the world's languages may die out in the next century. Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine assert that this trend is far more than simply disturbing. Making explicit the link between language survival and environmental issues, they argue that the extinction of languages is part of the larger picture of near-total collapse of the worldwide ecosystem. Indeed, the authors contend that the struggle to preserve precious environmental resources-such as the rainforest-cannot be separated from the struggle to maintain diverse cultures, and that the causes of language death, like that of ecological destruction, lie at the intersection of ecology and politics. In addition to defending the world's endangered languages, the authors also pay homage to the last speakers of dying tongues, such as Red Thundercloud, a Native American in South Carolina; Ned Mandrell, with whom the Manx language passed away in 1974; and Arthur Bennett, an Australian who was the last person to know more than a few words of Mbabaram. In our languages lies the accumulated knowledge of humanity. Indeed, each language is a unique window on experience. Vanishing Voices is a call to preserve this resource, before it is too late.
Historical Linguistics And Endangered Languages
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Author : Patience Epps
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-07-28
Historical Linguistics And Endangered Languages written by Patience Epps and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This collection showcases the contributions of the study of endangered and understudied languages to historical linguistic analysis, and the broader relevance of diachronic approaches toward developing better informed approaches to language documentation and description. The volume brings together perspectives from both established and up-and-coming scholars and represents a globally and linguistically diverse range of languages.The collected papers demonstrate the ways in which endangered languages can challenge existing models of language change based on more commonly studied languages, and can generate innovative insights into linguistic phenomena such as pathways of grammaticalization, forms and dynamics of contact-driven change, and the diachronic relationship between lexical and grammatical categories. In so doing, the book highlights the idea that processes and outcomes of language change long held to be universally relevant may be more sensitive to cultural and typological variability than previously assumed. Taken as a whole, this collection brings together perspectives from language documentation and historical linguistics to point the way forward for richer understandings of both language change and documentary-descriptive approaches, making this key reading for scholars in these fields.
Endangered Languages
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Author : Lenore A. Grenoble
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-03-26
Endangered Languages written by Lenore A. Grenoble and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-03-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Provides an overview of the issues surrounding language loss.
Lessons From Documented Endangered Languages
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Author : K. David Harrison
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Lessons From Documented Endangered Languages written by K. David Harrison and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume represents part of an unprecedented and still growing effort to advance, coordinate and disseminate the scientific documentation of endangered languages. As the pace of language extinction increases, linguists and native communities are accelerating their efforts to speak, remember, record, analyze and archive as much as possible of our common human heritage that is linguistic diversity. The window of opportunity for documentation is narrower than the actual lifetime of a language, and is now rapidly closing for many languages represented in this volume. The authors of these papers unveil newly collected data from previously poorly known and endangered languages. They organize highly complex linguistic facts - paradigms, affixes, vowel patterns - while pointing out the theoretically challenging aspects of these. Beyond this, they reflect on the social and human dimensions, discussing particular problems of nostalgia and modernity, memory and forgetting, and obsolescence and ethics, while viewing language as not merely data on a page but as a living creation in the minds and mouths of its speakers.