Language endangerment and language maintenance /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bradley, David, 1947-, Bradley, Maya
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge Curzon, 2002.
Temas:
Language maintenance.
Language attrition.
Compétence linguistique > Perte.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Alphabets & Writing Systems.
Bedrohte Sprache
Mehrsprachigkeit
Spracherhaltung
Minderheitensprache
Sprachkontakt
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xx, 356 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781136852787
1136852786
9781315028811
1315028816

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