Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance
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Australian Aboriginal Languages
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Central Maluku
Central Moluccan
East TIMOR
ELs
endangered languages research
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Father's Language
indigenous language preservation strategies
Indigenous Languages
La Trobe University
Language Maintenance
Language Obsolescence
language revitalisation
Language Revival
Lexical Loans
Lingua Franca
linguistic typology
Minority Language
minority language rights
Moluccan Community
Monash
multilingual communities
North Maluku
Semi Speakers
Severely Endangered
sociolinguistics
Traditional Multilingualism
Tucano
Tucano Languages
Vice Versa
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780700714568
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 23 May 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 overview introduction
* four theoretical chapters on what happens during language shift
* ten case studies of autochthonous languages under threat
* four case studies of migrant languages at risk
* three concluding chapters discussing strategies and resources for language maintenance.
David Bradley is Reader in Linguistics at La Trobe University. He has long been working in various minority communities in China and Southeast Asia, and has published a range of descriptive, historical and other studies. Maya Bradley is a Researcher in Lingusitics at La Trobe University. She has published a variety of studies on first and second language Hebrew, English and on minority language of China.
