Sustaining linguistic diversity : endangered and minority languages and language varieties

Sustaining linguistic diversity : endangered and minority languages and language varieties / Kendall A. King [and others], editors.

In the last three decades the field of endangered and minority languages has evolved rapidly, moving from the initial dire warnings of linguists to a swift increase in the number of organizations, funding programs, and community-based efforts dedicated to documentation, maintenance, and revitalizati...

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Corporate Author: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics
Other Authors: King, Kendall A., 1969-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2008.
Series:Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics
Subjects:
Language attrition.
Language policy.
Language revival.
Linguistic minorities.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
Language attrition
Language policy
Language revival
Linguistic minorities
Minderheitensprache
Bedrohte Sprache
Minorités linguistiques.
Politique linguistique.
Minoritetsspråk.
Språkförlust.
Språkpolitik.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
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Table of Contents:
  • Linguistic diversity, sustainability, and the future of the past / Suzanne Romaine
  • When is an "extinct language" not extinct? : Miami, a formerly sleeping language / Wesley Y. Leonard
  • Evaluating endangerment : proposed metadata and implementation / M. Paul Lewis
  • Endangered language varieties : vernacular speech and linguistic standardization in Brazilian Portuguese / Gregory R. Guy and Ana M.S. Zilles
  • The linguistic negotiation of complex racialized identities by Black Appalachian speakers / Christine Mallinson
  • Working at "9 to 5" Gaelic : speakers, context, and ideologies of an emerging minority language register / Emily McEwan-Fujita
  • Voice and biliteracy in indigenous language revitalization : contentious educational practices in Quechua, Guarani, and Maori contexts / Nancy H. Hornberger
  • Endangering language vitality through institutional development : ideology, authority, and official standard Irish in the Gaeltacht / Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin
  • Scandinavian minority language policies in transition : the impact of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Norway and Sweden / Leena Huss
  • Language development in Eritrea : the case of Blin / Paul D. Fallon
  • Indigenous language policies in social practice : the case of Navajo / Teresa L. McCarty, Mary Eunice Romero-Little, and Ofelia Zepeda
  • Heritage language education in the United States : a need to reconceptualize and restructure / Joy Kreeft Peyton [and others]
  • Language diversity and the public interest / Walt Wolfram
  • At what cost? : methods of language revival and protection : examples from Hebrew / Elana Shohamy
  • Unendangered dialects, endangered people / William Labov.

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