Language endangerment and language maintenance / / edited by David Bradley and Maya Bradley

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (377 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.44
• Soggetto topico: Language maintenance; Language attrition
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BradleyDavid BradleyMaya
• Note generali: First published 2002 by RoutledgeCurzon.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Table of Figures, Maps and Tables; Introduction; Chapter 1: Language Attitudes: the key factor in language maintenance; Chapter 2: Strategies for Language Maintenance and Revival; Chapter 3: Traditional Multilingualism and Language Endangerment; Chapter 4: Why One Cannot Preserve Languages (but can preserve language ecologies); Chapter 5: Irish and Finland Swedish; Chapter 6: Working Together to Strengthen Sm'algyax (Tsimshian Nation, British Columbia, Canada); Chapter 7: Language Policy and Language Maintenance: Yi in China ; Chapter 8: Tai languages of Assam, a progress report - Does anything remain of the Tai Ahom language?Chapter 9: The Impact of Malay on Taba: a type of incipient language death or incipient death of a language type?; Chapter 10: Language Obsolescence: Progress or Decay? The emergence of new grammatical categories in 'language death'; Chapter 11: Reclaiming Languages in Aboriginal Victoria; Chapter 12: Language Plan for Norfolk Island; Chapter 13: Language Maintenance and Survival in East Timor: all change now? Winners and losers ; Chapter 14: Steel Tyres or Rubber Tyres - Maintenance or Loss: Pennsylvania German in the ""horse and buggy"" communities of OntarioChapter 15: Language Maintenance at the Micro Level: Hmong ex-refugee communities; Chapter 16: Community Initiatives towards Language Renewal among Moluccan Migrants in the Netherlands; Chapter 17: Concealment, Maintenance and Renaissance: language and ethnicity in the Moluccan community in the Netherlands; Chapter 18: Extinction in Whose Terms? Which parts of a language constitute a target for language maintenance programmes? ; Chapter 19: Dictionaries and Endangered LanguagesChapter 20: Conclusion: Resources for Language Maintenance; Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 involved and how can insights about this process contribute to linguistic theory? What typological insights will be lost if undescribed languages disappear before their unique structural properties are known? How can language shift be stopped or reversed?This volume comprises:* a general ov
• Titolo autorizzato: Language endangerment and language maintenance
• ISBN: 1-138-87834-0; 1-136-85278-6; 1-315-02881-6; 1-136-85271-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453556203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II