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Product details

  • ISBN 9781138589483
  • Weight: 580g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Dec 2019
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Museums of Language and the Display of Intangible Cultural Heritage presents essays by practitioners based in language museums around the world. Describing their history, mission, and modes of display, contributors demonstrate the important role intangible heritage can and should play in the museum.

Arguing that languages are among our most precious forms of cultural heritage, the book also demonstrates that they are at risk of neglect, and of endangerment from globalisation and linguistic imperialism. Including case studies from across Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia, this book documents the vital work being done by museums to help preserve languages and make them objects of broad public interest. Divided into three sections, contributions to the book focus on one of three types of museums: museums of individual languages, museums of language groups – both geographic and structural – and museums of writing. The volume presents practical information alongside theoretical discussions and state-of-the-art commentaries concerning the representation of languages and their cultural nature.

Museums of Language and the Display of Intangible Cultural Heritage is the first volume to address the subject of language museums and, as such, should be of interest to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of museum and cultural heritage studies, applied linguistics, anthropology, tourism, and public education.

About

Margaret J.-M. Sönmez is Associate Professor of World Languages and Literatures at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey.

Maia Wellington Gahtan is Program Director of the MA in Museum Studies and Professor of Art History and Museology at the Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence, Italy.

Nadia Cannata is Associate Professor in Italian Philology and History of the Italian Language at Sapienza, University of Rome in Italy.