Language endangerment and language maintenance / edited by David Bradley and Maya Bradley.
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge Curzon,
2002.
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| Summary: | 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 ov. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 356 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781136852787 1136852786 9781315028811 1315028816 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |