When languages die : the extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge

When languages die : the extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge / K. David Harrison.

In When Languages Die, K. David Harrison illustrates the individual face of language loss, as well as its global scale. Languages are the accretion of thousands of years of a peopleʼs science and art - from observations of ecological patterns to creation myths. The author shows that the disappearanc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harrison, K. David (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
Subjects:
Language obsolescence.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Ancient Languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Language obsolescence
Uitstervende talen.
Kennisoverdracht.
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Table of Contents:
  • A world of many (fewer) voices
  • An extinction of (ideas about) species
  • Case study : vanishing herds and reindeer words
  • Many moons ago : traditional calendars and time-reckoning
  • Case study : nomads of western Mongolia
  • An atlas in the mind
  • Case study : wheel of fortune and a blessing
  • Silent storytellers, lost legends
  • Case study : new rice versus old knowledge
  • Endangered number systems : counting to twenty on your toes
  • Case study : the leaf-cup people, India's modern 'primitives'
  • Worlds within words.

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