An introduction to the topic of language endangerment, answering questions such as: what is it? How and why does it happen? Wy should we care? The book outlines the causes of language endangerment, explaining what makes a language 'safe', and highlighting the danger signs that threaten a minority language.
An introduction to the topic of language endangerment, answering questions such as: what is it? How and why does it happen? Wy should we care? The book outlines the causes of language endangerment, explaining what makes a language 'safe', and highlighting the danger signs that threaten a minority language.
Sarah G. Thomason is William J. Gedney Collegiate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan. Her previous publications include Language Contact: An Introduction (2001).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction 2. Why and how languages become endangered 3. Sliding into dormancy: social processes and linguistic effects 4. What a community loses: language loss as cultural loss 5. What science loses: language loss as a threat to our understanding of human history, human cognition, and the natural world 6. Field research on endangered languages 7. Language preservation and revitalization.
1. Introduction 2. Why and how languages become endangered 3. Sliding into dormancy: social processes and linguistic effects 4. What a community loses: language loss as cultural loss 5. What science loses: language loss as a threat to our understanding of human history, human cognition, and the natural world 6. Field research on endangered languages 7. Language preservation and revitalization.
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