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Title Responses to language endangerment : in honor of Mickey Noonan : new directions in language documentation and language revitalization / edited by Elena Mihas, Bernard Perley, Gabriel Rei-Doval and Kathleen Wheatley, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 273 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 142
Studies in language companion series ; v. 142.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The world's languages in crisis : a 20-year update / Gary F. Simons & M. Paul Lewis -- What can revitalization work teach us about documentation? / Marianne Mithun -- Unanswered questions in language documentation and revitalization : new directions for research and action / Lenore A. Grenoble -- Training as empowering social action : an ethical response to language endangerment / Carol Genetti & Rebekka Siemens -- How to avoid pitfalls in documenting endangered languages / Sarah G. Thomason -- Converb and aspect-marking polysemy in Nar / Kristine Hildebrandt -- Grammatical relations in Mixe and Chimariko : differences and similarities / Carmen Jany -- Having a shinshii/shishii 'master' around makes you speak Japanese! : inadvertent contextualization in gathering Ikema data / Toshihide Nakayama & Tsuyoshi Ono -- Internal and external calls to immigrant language promotion : evaluating the research approach in two cases of community-engaged linguistic research in Eastern North Carolina / Ricard Viñas-De-Puig -- Code-switching in an Erzya-Russian bilingual variety : an 'endangered' transitory phase in a contact situation / Boglárka Janurik -- Colonialism, nationalism and language vitality in Azerbaijan / John M. Clifton -- Revitalizing languages through place-based language curriculum : identity through learning / Joana Jansen, Roger Jacob & Janne Underriner -- Remembering ancestral voices : emergent vitalities and the future of indigenous languages / Bernard Perley.
Summary This volume further complicates and advances the contemporary perspective on language endangerment by examining the outcomes of the most commonly cited responses to language endangerment, i.e. language documentation, language revitalization, and training. The present collection takes stock of many complex and pressing issues, such as the assessment of the degree of language endangerment, the contribution of linguistic scholarship to language revitalization programs, the creation of successful language reclamation programs, the emergence of languages that arise as a result of revitalization efforts after interrupted transmission, the ethics of fieldwork, and the training of field linguists and language educators. The volume's case studies provide detailed personal accounts of fieldworkers and language activists who are grappling with issues of language documentation and revitalization in the concrete physical and socio-cultural settings of native speaker communities in different regions of the world.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Language obsolescence.
Language obsolescence.
Endangered languages.
Endangered languages.
Language revival.
Language revival.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Feestbundels (vorm)
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Mihas, Elena, editor.
Perley, Bernard C., editor.
Rei Doval, Gabriel, editor.
Wheatley, Kathleen, editor.
Noonan, Michael (Michael P.), honouree.
Other Form: Print version: Responses to language endangerment 9789027206091 (DLC) 2013031129 (OCoLC)864429426
ISBN 9789027271150 (electronic book)
9027271151 (electronic book)
130611795X (e-book)
9781306117951 (e-book)
9789027206091
9027206090