Responses to language endangerment : in honor of Mickey Noonan. new directions in language documentation and language revitalization / edited by Elena Mihas [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mihas, Elena.

Series:

Studies in language companion series

Studies in Language Companion Series ; 142

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Language and languages.

Language obsolescence--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Language obsolescence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Language endangerment is a global tragedy that has prompted a surge in research and advocacy on behalf of those communities whose languages have been diagnosed as endangered. Indigenous languages in the Americas and Australia are the most at risk of becoming extinct by the end of this century. Graded scales from "safe" to "extinct" present diagnostic frames of reference that influence the kinds of approaches toward documentation and revitalization that community activists/advocates and language experts develop and initiate. Those languages deemed "extinct" and/or "severely endangered" are hampered by the prevailing metaphors that unduly constrain possible actions for language vitality. This paper offers a re-conceptualization of the metaphors regarding language endangerment away from "death" and "extinct" to "sleeping" and from documentation toward "emergent vitalities". This is especially critical for indigenous communities living in their ancestral homelands where remembering ancestral voices plays a significant role in possible futures for indigenous languages.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2013).

ISBN:

9789027271150

9027271151

OCLC:

867630829