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Ethnographic contributions to the study of endangered languages /
It is a feature of the twenty-first century that world languages are displacing local languages at an alarming rate, transforming social rela-tions and complicating cultural transmission in the process. This language shift--the gradual abandonment of minority languages in favor of national or intern...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Language ideologies in the discourse of education that promote language shift in Kenya / Heidi A. Orcutt-Gachiri
- Education and its role in language endangerment in Siberia and the Far East / Olga Kazakevich
- Is English education always detrimental to vernacular languages? : education and language endangerment from a Papua New Guinean perspective / M. Lynn Landweer
- Indigenous language revitalization in Tecate, Baja California : a narrative account / Paula Meyer, with Jon Meza Cuero
- Territory, identity, and language among the Añun people (Venezuela) / Marie-France Patte
- The agency of language ideologies in Miami Indian recovery / Melissa A. Rinehart
- Stolen life, preserved language : life and death and endangered languages / Barbara G. Hoffman
- Kurripako and its speakers in Venezuela : a linguistic anthropological analysis of language endangerment / Tania Granadillo
- Language loss in a beautiful scenery : the case of Öömrang, a Frisian dialect in northern Germany / Lars von Karstedt
- Agency and ideology in language shift and language maintenance / Mark A. Sicoli
- Intersections : history, language, and globalization in the North Carolina Cherokee communities / Heidi M. Altman
- Afterword / Ofelia Zepeda.