Ethnographic contributions to the study of endangered languages /

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Imprint:Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2011.
Description:x, 230 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8508638
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Varying Form of Title:Endangered languages
Other authors / contributors:Granadillo, Tania.
Orcutt-Gachiri, Heidi A., 1970-
ISBN:9780816526994 (cloth : alk. paper)
0816526990 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-218) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.