New perspectives on endangered languages : bridging gaps between sociolinguistics, documentation and language revitalization /
Understanding sociolinguistics as a theoretical and methodological framework hopefully could attempt to promote change and social development in human communities. Yet it still presents important political, epistemological, methodological and theoretical challenges. A sociolinguistics of development...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
[2010]
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Colección: | Culture and language use ;
v. 1. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Understanding sociolinguistics as a theoretical and methodological framework hopefully could attempt to promote change and social development in human communities. Yet it still presents important political, epistemological, methodological and theoretical challenges. A sociolinguistics of development, in which the revitalization of linguistic communities is the priority, opens new perspectives for the emerging field of linguistic documentation, in which the societal aspects of research, stressed by sociolinguistics, have frequently been marginal. The need to focus on the documentation of lingui. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (156 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9789027287731 9027287732 9781282897359 1282897357 9786612897351 661289735X |
ISSN: | 1879-5838 ; |