Responses to language endangerment : in honor of Mickey Noonan : new directions in language documentation and language revitalization /

Responses to language endangerment : in honor of Mickey Noonan : new directions in language documentation and language revitalization /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
©2013
Description:1 online resource (xv, 273 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; volume 142
Studies in language companion series ; v. 142.
Subject:
Language obsolescence.
Endangered languages.
Language revival.
Endangered languages.
Language obsolescence.
Language revival.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11216075
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Varying Form of Title:New directions in language documentation and language revitalization
Other authors / contributors:Mihas, Elena, editor.
Perley, Bernard C., editor.
Rei Doval, Gabriel, editor.
Wheatley, Kathleen, editor.
Noonan, Michael (Michael P.), honouree.
ISBN:9789027271150
9027271151
9781306117951
130611795X
9789027206091
9027206090
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:This volume further complicates and advances the contemporary perspective on language endangerment by examining the outcomes of the most commonly cited responses to language endangerment, i.e. language documentation, language revitalization, and training. The present collection takes stock of many complex and pressing issues, such as the assessment of the degree of language endangerment, the contribution of linguistic scholarship to language revitalization programs, the creation of successful language reclamation programs, the emergence of languages that arise as a result of revitalization efforts after interrupted transmission, the ethics of fieldwork, and the training of field linguists and language educators. The volume's case studies provide detailed personal accounts of fieldworkers and language activists who are grappling with issues of language documentation and revitalization in the concrete physical and socio-cultural settings of native speaker communities in different regions of the world.
Other form:Print version: Responses to language endangerment 9789027206091
Table of Contents:
  • -1. Prelim pages
  • 0. Table of contents
  • 1. Dedication
  • 2. Acknowledgements
  • 3. Introduction
  • 4. Part I. Language Endangerment: Challenges and Responses
  • 5. The\world's languages in crisis
  • 6. What can revitalization work teach us about documentation?
  • 7. Unanswered questions in language documentation and revitalization
  • 8. Training as empowering social action
  • 9. How to avoid pitfalls in documenting endangered languages
  • 10. Part II. Case Studies in Documentation and Revitalization of Endangered Languages and Languages in Contact
  • 11. Converb and aspect-marking polysemy in Nar
  • 12. Grammatical relations in Mixe and Chimariko
  • 13. Having a shinshii/shiishii `master' around makes you speak Japanese!
  • 14. Internal and external calls to immigrant language promotion
  • 15. Code-switching in an Erzya-Russian bilingual variety
  • 16. Colonialism, nationalism and language vitality in Azerbaijan
  • 17. Revitalizing languages through place-based language curriculum
  • 18. Remembering ancestral voices
  • 19. Index

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