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Indigenous language acquisition, maintenance, and loss and current language policies / Toru Okamura and Masumi Kai, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indigenous peoples--Language--Case studies.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Language and languages--Study and teaching.
- Language and languages.
- Language policy.
- Linguistic minorities--Government policy.
- Linguistic minorities.
- Language revival.
- Imperialism and philology.
- Indigenous peoples--Language.
- Physical Description:
- 23 PDFs (330 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Hershey, Pennsylvania : Information Science Reference, 2020.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- ""This book explores sociolinguistic analysis and linguistic analysis. It also discusses the acquisition, maintenance, and loss of the indigenous languages and language policies"--Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Section 1. Americas, Europe, and Africa. Chapter 1. How the perceived language status of Brunca affects resource allocation in Costa Rica: policy vs. reality ; Chapter 2. Critical language pedagogy in scotland: the case of Gaelic medium education ; Chapter 3. Language endangerment in Africa
- Section 2. Australia and the Pacific. Chapter 4. Australian aboriginal languages: their decline and revitalisation ; Chapter 5. Preserving the Nauruan language and Pidgin English in Nauru ; Chapter 6. Acquisition and maintenance of the indigenous Chamorro language in the youngest generation in Guam ; Chapter 7. A discourse analytic approach to practices of Hawaiian language revitalization in the mass media: style, bivalency, and metapragmatic commentary ; Chapter 8. Persons and address terms in Melanesia: a contrastive study
- Section 3. Asia. Chapter 9. Selective language maintenance in multilingual Malaysia ; Chapter 10. Language shift and maintenance in uttarakhand, a hilly state of India ; Chapter 11. The origin and history of the extinct contact-induced language, Matagi ; Chapter 12. Raising awareness of language minorities in Japan: teaching about the Ainu, Okinawans, and Nikkei-jin.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781799829614
- 1799829618
- OCLC:
- 1183964120
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