Endangered Languages: Language Loss and Community Response
The issue of language loss is currently the focus of much linguistic research. This edited volume brings together work by theoretical linguists, field linguists and nonlinguist members of minority communities to provide an integrated view of how language is lost, from sociological and economic as well as from linguistic perspectives. It maps out some of the strategies applied by native communities and professional linguists in the face of language endangerment. Several authors address the...
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Provides an overview of the issues surrounding language loss.
PrefaceList of abbreviations and symbolsPt. IGeneral issues11Western language ideologies and small-language prospects32Toward a typology of language endangerment22Pt. IILanguage-community responses553Technical, emotional, and ideological issues in reversing language shift: examples from Southeast Alaska574Mayan efforts toward language preservation995A chronology of Mohawk language instruction at Kahnawa:ke1176Language endangerment in South America: a programmatic approach124Pt. IIIWhat is lost: language diversity1617The significance of diversity in language endangerment and preservation1638On endangered languages and the importance of linguistic diversity1929Living words and cartoon translations: Longhouse "texts" and the limitations of English21710Documenting rhetorical, aesthetic, and expressive loss in language shift234Pt. IVMechanisms of language loss25911Impact of language variation and accommodation theory on language maintenance: an analysis of Shaba Swahili26112A way to dusty death: the Matrix Language turnover hypothesis28913Copper Island Aleut: a case of language "resurrection"317Appendix328References329Index of languages348Index of names352General index356
