| Description |
1 online resource (156 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Culture and language use,
1879-5838 ;
v. 1
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Culture and language use ; v. 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Exploring links between documentation, sociolinguistics and language revitalization: an introduction / José Antonio Flores Farfán & Fernando Ramallo -- Social life of a language: will Manambu survive / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- Private and the public in documentation and revitalization / Nancy C. Dorian -- Bridging linguistic research and linguistic documentation: the Kuikuro experience (Brazil) / Bruna Franchetto -- Language vitality and revitalization in the Arctic / Lenore A. Grenoble -- Demise and attempted revival of Uchumataqu (Uru): values and actors / Pieter Muysken -- Linguistic vitality in the Awetí indigenous community: a case study from the Upper Xingu multilingual area / Sabine Reiter -- Linking three agendas: opening a debate and directions for the future / Fernando Ramallo & José Antonio Flores Farfán. |
| Summary |
Understanding sociolinguistics as a theoretical and methodological framework hopefully could attempt to promote change and social development in human communities. Yet it still presents important political, epistemological, methodological and theoretical challenges. A sociolinguistics of development, in which the revitalization of linguistic communities is the priority, opens new perspectives for the emerging field of linguistic documentation, in which the societal aspects of research, stressed by sociolinguistics, have frequently been marginal. The need to focus on the documentation of lingui. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics.
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Sociolinguistics. |
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Endangered languages.
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Endangered languages. |
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Language obsolescence.
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Language obsolescence. |
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Linguistic change.
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Linguistic change. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Flores Farfán, José Antonio.
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Ramallo, Fernando F.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: New perspectives on endangered languages. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010 9789027202819 (DLC) 2010028102 (OCoLC)645790936 |
| ISBN |
9789027287731 (electronic book) |
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9027287732 (electronic book) |
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1282897357 |
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9781282897359 |
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9789027202819 |
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9027202818 |
| Standard No. |
9786612897351 |
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