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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Exploring links between documentation, sociolinguistics and language revitalization : an introduction / José Antonio Flores Farfán & Fernando Ramallo
  • The social life of a language : will Manambu survive / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
  • The private and the public in documentation and revitalization / Nancy C. Dorian
  • Bridging linguistic research and linguistic documentation : the Kuikuro experience (Brazil) / Bruna Franchetto
  • Language vitality and revitalization in the Arctic / Lenore A. Grenoble
  • The demise and attempted revival of Uchumataqu (Uru) : values and actors / Pieter Muysken
  • Linguistic vitality in the Awetí indigenous community : a case study from the Upper Xingu multilingual area / Sabine Reiter
  • Linking three agendas : opening a debate and directions for the future / Fernando Ramallo & José Antonio Flores Farfán.