Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages

Informationen zum Autor Peter K. Austin is Märit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics and Director of the Endangered Languages Academic Programme at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Julia Sallabank is Lecturer in Language Support and Revitalisation in the Endangered Languages Academic Programme at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Klappentext This Handbook examines the reasons behind the loss of linguistic diversity and what can be done to document and support endangered languages. Zusammenfassung Around 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 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Peter K. Austin and Julia Sallabank; Part I. Endangered Languages: 2. Language ecology and endangerment Lenore Grenoble; 3. Speakers and communities Colette Grinevald and Michel Bert; 4. Survey of endangered language situations around the world David Bradley; 5. Language contact and change in endangered languages Carmel O'Shannessy; 6. Structural aspects of language endangerment Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell; 7. Language and culture Lev Michael; 8. Language and society Bernard Spolsky; Part II. Language Documentation: 9. Language documentation Tony Woodbury; 10. Speakers and language documentation Lise Dobrin and Josh Berson; 11. Data and language documentation Jeff Good; 12. Archiving and language documentation Lisa Conathan; 13. Digital archiving David Nathan; Part III. Responses: 14. Language policy for endangered languages Julia Sallabank; 15. Revitalisation of endangered languages Leanne Hinton; 16. Orthography development Friederike Lüpke; 17. Lexicography in endangered language communities Ulrike Mosel; 18. Language curriculum design and evaluation for endangered languages Serafin Coronel-Molina and Teresa McCarty; 19. The role of information technology in supporting minority and endangered languages Gary Holton; Part IV. Challenges: 20. Endangered languages and economic development Wayne Harbert; 21. Researcher training and capacity development in language documentation Anthony Jukes; 22. New roles for endangered languages Máiréad Moriarty; 23. Planning a language documentation project Claire Bowern....

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• Authors: Peter K. Austin, Peter K. (Marit Rausing Chair in Field Lin Austin, Peter K. Sallabank Austin, Peter Sallabank Austin, Julia Sallabank
• Assisted by: Peter K Austin (Editor), Peter K. Austin (Editor), Peter K. (Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics Austin (Editor), Austin Peter K. (Editor), Julia Sallabank (Editor), Julia (School of Oriental and African Studies Sallabank (Editor), Sallabank Julia (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521882156
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88215-6
• No. of pages: 580
• Series: Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics; Cambridge Handbooks in Languag; Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics; Cambridge Handbooks in Languag
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociolinguistics