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245 00 Language documentation and endangerment in Africa /
       |cedited by James Essegbey, Brent Henderson, Fiona 
       McLaughlin, University of Florida Gainesville. 
264  1 Amsterdam ;|aPhiladelphia :|bJohn Benjamins Publishing 
       Company,|c[2015] 
300    1 online resource. 
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490 1  Culture and language use,|x1879-5838 ;|v17 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa; 
       Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; 
       Introduction; References; Section 1. Language endangerment
       and documentation; Chapter 1. Unintended consequences of 
       methodological and practical responses to language 
       endangerment in Africa; 1. Introduction; 2. Scepticism; 3.
       Constructive responses; 4. Language documentation 
       practices and their consequences; 4.1 Orthography; 4.2 
       Dangerous literacies; 4.3 Standardisation; 5. Recording, 
       transcribing and editing; 6. Concluding remarks; 
       References. 
505 8  Chapter 2. Different cultures, different attitudes: But 
       how different is "the African situation" really?1. Some 
       preliminary observations; 2. The Tima documentation 
       project: A case study; 2.1 "We Tima are looking for a 
       linguist"; 2.2 Implementing Tima school materials; 2.3 "We
       Tima speak a real language, not some dialect"; 3. Some 
       reasons for doubt; 3.1 A brief look at the macro level: 
       States and universities; 3.2 Developing instructional 
       materials; 4. Common Ground; 4.1 A comparison with the 
       situation in First World countries; 4.2 Language 
       endangerment and the construction of ethnicity. 
505 8  5. A sentimental journey through the halls of language 
       sciences5.1 On so-called genetic and typological 
       diversity; 5.2 The reinvention of mixed languages; 6. Some
       concluding remarks: Strategizing on methodologies; 
       References; Chapter 3. Ideologies and typologies of 
       language endangerment in Africa; 1. Introduction; 2. The 
       present is in the past: Colonialisation and the creation 
       of African languages; 2.1 The invention of social 
       categories; 2.2 The creation of languages; 2.3 The 
       obsession with literacy. 
505 8  3. Africanist views on the vitality of African languages, 
       contrasted with global endangerment crite3.1 African 
       languages: Doubly marginalised; 3.2 Some unfounded 
       assumptions on African languages and their patterns of 
       interaction; 3.3 Positioning African languages according 
       to the UNESCO endangerment criteria; 3.4 Locating African 
       languages on Fishman's Graded Intergenerational Disruption
       Scale; 4. African language ecologies and the social 
       factors nurturing them; 4.1 Exogynous marriage patterns; 
       4.2 Language acquisition in peer groups and age classes; 
       4.3 Child fostering. 
505 8  4.4 Professional, ritual and crisis mobility and 
       migration4.5 Joking relationships and patronymic 
       equivalences; 4.6 Multilingualism and polylectality for 
       hierarchical, ritual, and other purposes; 4.7 Literacy 
       practices relying on conventionalised exographia and 
       multigraphia; 5. Towards Africa-specific vitality and 
       endangerment criteria; 5.1 The existence of communities of
       practice and social networks for language socialization in
       a given language ecology. 
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700 1  Essegbey, James,|d1963-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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700 1  Henderson, Brent|c(Linguist),|0https://id.loc.gov/
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700 1  Mc Laughlin, Fiona,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
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776 08 |iPrint version:|tLanguage documentation and endangerment 
       in Africa.|dAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins 
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