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Can Threatened Languages be Saved?

2001-01-01 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Can Threatened Languages be Saved? by : Joshua A. Fishman

Download or read book Can Threatened Languages be Saved? written by Joshua A. Fishman. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defenders of threatened languages all over the world, from advocates of biodiversity to dedicated defenders of their own cultural authenticity, are often humbled by the dimensity of the task that they are faced with when the weak and the few seek to find a safe-harbour against the ravages of the strong and the many. This book provides both practical case studies and theoretical directions from all five continents and advances thereby the collective pursuit of "reversing language shift" for the greater benefit of cultural democracy everywhere.

Can Threatened Languages be Saved?

2001 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Can Threatened Languages be Saved? by : Joshua A. Fishman

Download or read book Can Threatened Languages be Saved? written by Joshua A. Fishman. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 19 contributions written primarily by international scholars in the fields of linguistics, anthropology, social psychology, and other fields, addressing language shift in various cultures, and efforts to reverse it. Edited and with an introduction by Joshua A. Fishman, an internationally known linguist and pioneer in the field of sociolinguistics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Reversing Language Shift

1991-01-01 Psychology
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Release : 1991-01-01
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis Reversing Language Shift by : Joshua A. Fishman

Download or read book Reversing Language Shift written by Joshua A. Fishman. This book was released on 1991-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the theory and practice of assistance to speech-communities whose native languages are threatened because their intergenerational continuity is proceeding negatively, with fewer and fewer speakers (or readers, writers and even understanders) every generation.

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The Last Speakers

2010-09-21 Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Last Speakers by : K. David Harrison

Download or read book The Last Speakers written by K. David Harrison. This book was released on 2010-09-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part travelogue and part scientist's notebook, The Last Speakers is the poignant chronicle of author K. David Harrison's expeditions around the world to meet with last speakers of vanishing languages. The speakers' eloquent reflections and candid photographs reveal little-known lifeways as well as revitalization efforts to teach disappearing languages to younger generations. Thought-provoking and engaging, this unique book illuminates the global language-extinction crisis through photos, graphics, interviews, traditional wisdom never before translated into English, and first-person essays that thrillingly convey the adventure of science and exploration.

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