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| Author | : Shobhana L. Chelliah |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 98 |
| Release | : 2021-01-22 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3030661903 |
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.
| Author | : Lenore A. Grenoble |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 359 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027211752 |
"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."
| Author | : Justyna Olko |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021-01-31 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 110862443X |
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.
| Author | : Mari C. Jones |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2013-12-12 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1107029066 |
Explores current efforts to record, collect and archive endangered languages which are in danger of falling silent.
| Author | : Kenneth L. Rehg |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1037 |
| Release | : 2018-07-18 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0190877049 |
The endangered languages crisis is widely acknowledged among scholars who deal with languages and indigenous peoples as one of the most pressing problems facing humanity, posing moral, practical, and scientific issues of enormous proportions. Simply put, no area of the world is immune from language endangerment. The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages, in 39 chapters, provides a comprehensive overview of the efforts that are being undertaken to deal with this crisis. A comprehensive reference reflecting the breadth of the field, the Handbook presents in detail both the range of thinking about language endangerment and the variety of responses to it, and broadens understanding of language endangerment, language documentation, and language revitalization, encouraging further research. The Handbook is organized into five parts. Part 1, Endangered Languages, addresses the fundamental issues that are essential to understanding the nature of the endangered languages crisis. Part 2, Language Documentation, provides an overview of the issues and activities of concern to linguists and others in their efforts to record and document endangered languages. Part 3, Language Revitalization, includes approaches, practices, and strategies for revitalizing endangered and sleeping ("dormant") languages. Part 4, Endangered Languages and Biocultural Diversity, extends the discussion of language endangerment beyond its conventional boundaries to consider the interrelationship of language, culture, and environment, and the common forces that now threaten the sustainability of their diversity. Part 5, Looking to the Future, addresses a variety of topics that are certain to be of consequence in future efforts to document and revitalize endangered languages.
| Author | : Peter K. Austin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 581 |
| Release | : 2011-03-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 113950083X |
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.
| Author | : Timothy Shopen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 1985-07-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521318990 |
The three volumes of Language typology and syntactic description offer a unique survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. Topics covered include parts of speech; passives; complementation; relative clauses; adverbial clauses; inflectional morphology; tense; aspect and mood; and deixis. The major ways these notions are realized u=in the languages of the world are explored, and the contributors provide brief sketches of relevant aspects of representative languages. Each volume is written in an accessible style with new concepts explained and exemplified as they are introduced. Although each volume can be read independently, together they provide a major work of reference that will serve as a manual for field workers and anyone interested in cross-linguistic generalizations.
| Author | : Adrianna Link |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 538 |
| Release | : 2021-05 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1496224337 |
The collection explores new applications of the American Philosophical Society’s library materials as scholars seek to partner on collaborative projects, often through the application of digital technologies, that assist ongoing efforts at cultural and linguistic revitalization movements within Native communities.
| Author | : David Bradley |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2019-11-21 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1107041139 |
Investigates the endangerment of languages and the loss of traditional cultural diversity, and how to respond.
| Author | : Tasaku Tsunoda |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2013-02-06 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110896583 |
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.
