Endangered languages and languages in danger : issues of documentation, policy, and language rights / edited by Luna Filipovic, Martin Pütz.
This peer-reviewed collection brings together the latest research on language endangerment and language rights. It creates a vibrant, interdisciplinary platform for the discussion of the most pertinent and urgent topics central to vitality and equality of languages in today's globalised world....
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2016]
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| Series: | Impact, studies in language and society ;
v. 42. |
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Table of Contents:
- Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Foreword; Table of contents; Introduction: Endangered languages and languages in danger; 1. Preliminary remarks; 2. Endangerment of languages and language ecology; 3. Why are endangered languages worth saving (Or what is lost when languages die)?; 4. Causes of language endangerment and disappearance: Language shift; 5. Language policy and linguistic human rights ; 6. Assessing ethnolinguistic vitality status; 7. Responses to language endangerment; 8. Critique of the endangered-languages movement; References.
- Section 1. Perspectives on endangerment: Ideology, language policy and language rightsNorth-South relations in linguistic science: Collaboration or colonialism?; 1. Introduction: Why document endangered languages?; 2. ELDR: Evolving paradigms; 3. North-South relations: Unequal exchange between academics and communities; 4. North-South relations: Unequal exchange inside the academe; References; Indigenous language policies in Brazil: Training indigenous people as teachers and researchers; 1. Introduction.
- 2. A brief account of the last thirty years of indigenous languages research and documentation3. The implementation of linguistic, cultural and educational policies benefiting indigenous peoples; 4. Conclusions; References; Language rights in danger: Access to justice and linguistic (in)equality in multilingual judicial co; 1. Introduction; 2. Facing the law without speaking the language: UK migrant prisoners' perspective; 3. Police interviews in the US: Barrier of translation; 4. Conclusion; References.
- Towards language planning for sign languages: Measuring endangerment and the treatment of British Si1. Introduction; 2. Local/regional mass media and governmental spheres; 3. Reversing language shift and BSL; 4. Policy and conventions; 5. Concluding recommendations; References; Appendix; A cost-and-benefit approach to language loss; 1. Introduction; 2. Some disputable assumptions about language endangerment and loss; 3. By way of conclusions; References; Section 2. Language documentation, ethno-history and language vitality; Language documentation 20 years on.
- 1. Defining language documentation2. Best practices, tools and models; 3. Critical responses; 4. Developments in archiving; 5. Language documentation and revitalization; 6. Documentation and academia; 7. Conclusions; References; The brief existence of Saipan Carolinian: A study of a vanishing language storing valuable linguisti; 1. Introduction; 2. Linguistic characteristics of SpnCRL, a blended Carolinian language; 3. Migration pattern reflected in SpnCRL speech; 4. Conclusion; References; Aikanã and Kwaza: Their ethno-historical and sociolinguistic context in Rondônia, Brazil.