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Language endangerment and language maintenance /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge Curzon,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ch. 1. Language attitudes : the key factor in language maintenance / David Bradley
- ch. 2. Strategies for language maintenance and revival / Stephen A. Wurm
- ch. 3. Traditional multilingualism and language endangerment / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
- ch. 4. Why one cannot preserve languages (but can preserve language ecologies) / Peter Mühlhäusler
- ch. 5. Irish and Finland Swedish / Anders Ahlqvist
- ch. 6. Working together to strengthen Smʼalgyax (Tsimshian Nation, British Columbia, Canada) / Tonya Stebbins
- ch. 7. Language policy and language maintenance : Yi in China / David Bradley & Maya Bradley
- ch. 8. Tai languages of Assam, a progress report : does anything remain of the Tai Ahom language? / Stephen Morey
- ch. 9. The impact of Malay on Taba : a type of incipient language death or incipient death of a language type? / John Bowden
- ch. 10. Language obsolescence : progress or decay? : the emergence of new grammatical categories in 'language death' / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
- ch. 11. Reclaiming languages in aboriginal Victoria / Barry Blake
- ch. 12. A language plan for Norfolk Island / Peter Mühlhäusler
- ch. 13. Language maintenance and survival in East Timor : all change now? : winners and losers / John Hajek
- ch. 14. Steel tyres or rubber tyres, maintenance or loss : Pennsylvania German in the "horse and buggy" communities of Ontario / Kate Burridge
- ch. 15. Language maintenance at the micro level : Hmong ex-refugee communities / Christina Eira
- ch. 16. Community initiatives towards language renewal among Moluccan migrants in the Netherlands / Margaret Florey
- ch. 17. Concealment, maintenance and renaissance : language and ethnicity in the Moluccan community in the Netherlands / Aone van Engelenhoven
- ch. 18. Extinction in whose terms? Which parts of a language constitute a target for language maintenance programmes? / Nicholas Thieberger
- ch. 19. Dictionaries and endangered languages / Miriam Corris [and others]
- ch. 20. Conclusion : resources for language maintenance / David Bradley & Maya Bradley.