Can threatened languages be saved? : reversing language shift, revisited : a 21st century perspective / edited by Joshua A. Fishman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fishman, Joshua A.

Series:

Multilingual matters ; 116

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language attrition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (519 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, 2001.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Defenders of threatened languages all over the world, from advocates of biodiversity to dedicated defenders of their own cultural authenticity, are often humbled by the immensity of the task that they are faced with when the weak and the few seek to find a safe-harbour against the ravages of the strong and the many. This book provides both practical case studies and theoretical directions from all five continents and advances thereby the collective pursuit of "reversing language shift" for the greater benefit of cultural democracy everywhere.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

The Contributors

Preface

Chapter 1. Why is it so Hard to Save a Threatened Language? (A Perspective on the Cases that Follow)

Chapter 2. Reversing Navajo Language Shift, Revisited

Chapter 3. How Threatened is the Spanish of New York Puerto Ricans?

Chapter 4. A Decade in the Life of a Two-in-One Language

Chapter 5. Reversing Language Shift in Quebec

Chapter 6. Otomí Language Shift and Some Recent Efforts to Reverse It

Chapter 7. Reversing Quechua Language Shift in South America

Chapter 8. Irish Language Production and Reproduction 1981–1996

Chapter 9. A Frisian Update of Reversing Language Shift

Chapter 10. Reversing Language Shift: The Case of Basque

Chapter 11. Catalan a Decade Later

Chapter 12. Saving Threatened Languages in Africa: A Case Study of Oko

Chapter 13. Andamanese: Biological Challenge for Language Reversal

Chapter 14. Akor Itak – Our Language, Your Language: Ainu in Japan

Chapter 15. Hebrew After a Century of RLS Efforts

Chapter 16. Can the Shift from Immigrant Languages be Reversed in Australia?

Chapter 17. Is the Extinction of Australia’s Indigenous Languages Inevitable?

Chapter 18. RLS in Aotearoa/New Zealand 1989–1999

Chapter 19. From Theory to Practice (and Vice Versa): Review, Reconsideration and Reiteration

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610827824

9781280827822

1280827823

9781853597060

1853597066

OCLC:

1078916178