Endangered languages in the 21st century
"Endangered Languages in the 21st Century provides research on endangered languages in the contemporary world, the challenges still to be faced, the work still to be done, and the methods and practices that have come to characterize efforts to revive and maintain disadvantaged indigenous langua...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Abingdon, Oxon, England ; New York, New York :
Routledge
2023.
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| Edición: | 1 ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009866439306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of contributors
- 1 Introduction
- Section I General state of endangered languages today in some large regions of the world: some good news
- 2 The rise and rise of Australian Languages
- 3 Endangered languages in Brazil in 2021
- 4 Endangered languages of Central Asia. Prospects for development in the new millennium
- 5 They kill languages, don't they? A short chronicle of the planned death of Berber in North Africa
- 6 First- and second-language speakers in the home: perspectives on the state and revitalization of Indigenous languages in Canada
- Section II Theoretical approaches - supporting language maintenance
- 7 Sustaining language use: bridging the gap between language communities and linguists
- 8 Language endangerment: what it is, how to measure it and how to act
- 9 Use of historical material for the safeguarding of endangered languages
- 10 The role of new media in minority- and endangered-language communities
- 11 Examining the role of change in endangered languages with some reference to Arbëresh and Arvanitika
- 12 Transnational languages in the atlas of endangered languages
- 13 Hypothetically speaking: ethics in linguistic fieldwork, a provocation
- Section III Empirical studies: towards sustainable language maintenance and use
- 14 Sustainable pathways for a fledgling language movement: the case of Kaurna of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia
- 15 Jewish Diaspora languages competing with revitalized Israeli Hebrew
- 16 Making 2,180 pages more useful: the Diyari dictionary of Rev. J. G. Reuther
- 17 A note on an Australian homophone loanshift
- 18 Sindhi Hindus, a diasporic community: reasons for shift and revitalisation strategies
- 19 Linguistic diversity endangered: the Waotededo language and the effects of intense contact.
- Selected bibliography of the works of Nicholas Ostler to whom the articles in this volume are dedicated
- Index.
