Language Endangerment And Language Maintenance


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Language Endangerment And Language Maintenance


Language Endangerment And Language Maintenance
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Author : David Bradley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-16

Language Endangerment And Language Maintenance written by David Bradley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


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 Death And Language Maintenance


Language Death And Language Maintenance
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Author : Mark Janse
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2003-01-01

Language Death And Language Maintenance written by Mark Janse 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 2003-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


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.



Endangered Languages


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.



Language Endangerment


Language Endangerment
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Author : David Bradley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-21

Language Endangerment written by David Bradley 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 2019-11-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


Investigates the endangerment of languages and the loss of traditional cultural diversity, and how to respond.



Language Endangerment And Language Revitalization


Language Endangerment And Language Revitalization
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Author : Tasaku Tsunoda
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-02-06

Language Endangerment And Language Revitalization written by Tasaku Tsunoda and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


In almost every part of the world, minority languages are threatened with extinction. At the same time, dedicated efforts are being made to document endangered languages, to maintain them, and even to revive once-extinct languages. The present volume examines a wide range of issues that concern language endangerment andlanguage revitalization. Among other things, it is shown that languages may be endangered to different degrees, endangerment situations in selected areas of the world are surveyed and definitions of language death and types of language death presented. The book also examines causes of language endangerment, speech behaviour in a language endangerment situation, structural changes in endangered languages, as well as types of speakers encountered in a language endangerment situation. In addition, methods of documentation and of training for linguists are proposed which will enable scholars to play an active role in the documentation of endangered languages and in language revitalization. The book presents a comprehensive overview of the field. It is clearly written and contains ample references to the relevant literature, thus providing useful guidance for further research. The author often draws on his own experience of documenting endangered languages and of language revival activities in Australia. The volume is of interest to a wide readership, including linguists, anthropologists, sociologists, and educators.



Music Endangerment


Music Endangerment
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Author : Catherine Grant
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014

Music Endangerment written by Catherine Grant 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 2014 with Music categories.


Situated within the growing field of applied ethnomusicology, and breaking with a tradition in ethnomusicology of ethnographic and fieldwork-based studies, this book explores the phenomenon of endangered music genres and ways in which the fields of language endangerment and language maintenance may inform efforts to support them.



Sustaining Linguistic Diversity


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 Endangerment Is An Important Issue


Language Endangerment Is An Important Issue
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Author : Corinna Colette Vellnagel
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2011-07-11

Language Endangerment Is An Important Issue written by Corinna Colette Vellnagel and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: Excellent, The University of Surrey, language: English, abstract: ‘Tarn palkö enim ab uo tundö’ – Only a handful of people are still able to understand these Livonian words (Viitso: 1990). Reasons why languages such as Livonian are becoming extinct are manifold and the estimated 7000 languages which “are being spoken around the world” (Colls: 2009, p. 1) are expected to rapidly shrink in the upcoming decades. It is obvious that language extinction and language death have reached an exceptional level in recent years and that the forecast for a striking percentage of the world’s dying languages is very high (Hale et al.: 1992). An untold number of languages has already died and the “disappearance of languages continues” (Wurm: 1991, p. 1) constantly. One reason for this loss is the fact that “more and more people switch to one of the dominant languages, especially English, and” (Deterding: 2004, p. 27) in consequence miss out on transmitting their endangered indigenous language to their descendents (Crystal: 2000). The problem of language death has only been discovered in the late 1980's and it is assumed that within this century 50% of the currently spoken languages will become extinct and that another 40% will be endangered so that their extinction is no longer ne avoidable – but only if this trend continues (Krauss: 1992). Although, this estimation might sound very pessimistic it is obvious that a drastic reduction of language diversity is on its way. In these premises, thoughts about how to countervail the reduction of diversity have come up within the last couple of years (Hale et al.: 1992; Bobaljik et al.; 1996; Grenoble and Whaley: 1998) with one possibility being to respond to the dying of languages by extensively documenting endangered languages before they actually become extinct. Considering the extent and the speed in which languages die out the task to document is particularly imperative.



Policy And Planning For Endangered Languages


Policy And Planning For Endangered Languages
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Author : Mari C. Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015

Policy And Planning For Endangered Languages written by Mari C. Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Endangered languages categories.


"Language policy issues are imbued with a powerful symbolism that is often linked to questions of identity, with the suppression or failure to recognise and support a given endangered variety representing a refusal to grant a 'voice' to the corresponding ethno-cultural community. This wide-ranging volume, which explores linguistic scenarios from across five continents, seeks to ignite the debate as to how and whether the interface between people, politics and language can affect the fortunes of endangered varieties. With chapters written by academics working in the field of language endangerment and members of indigenous communities on the frontline of language support and maintenance, Policy and Planning for Endangered Languages is essential reading for researchers and students of language death, sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, as well as community members involved in native language maintenance"--



Language Diversity In The Pacific


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.