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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Flores Farfán, José Antonio (Editor ), Ramallo, Fernando F. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2010]
Colección:Culture and language use ; v. 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (156 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9789027287731
9027287732
9781282897359
1282897357
9786612897351
661289735X
ISSN:1879-5838 ;