Brent Henderson

List of John Benjamins publications for which Brent Henderson plays a role.

Title

Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa

Edited by James Essegbey, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin

[Culture and Language Use, 17] 2015. vi, 317 pp.

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Anthropological Linguistics | Language documentation | Other African languages

Articles

Essegbey, James, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin. 2015. Introduction. Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa, Essegbey, James, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin (eds.), pp. 1–12

Article

Henderson, Brent. 2015. Out of context: Documenting languages in immigrant and refugee communities. Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa, Essegbey, James, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin (eds.), pp. 239–252

In discussions of language endangerment, language shift and loss due to war and displacement are seldom discussed, and the practice of carrying out documentation projects with displaced populations is often discouraged. This paper argues in favor of doing documentation work with displaced… read more | Article

Rohloff, Peter and Brent Henderson. 2015. Development, language revitalization, and culture: The case of the Mayan languages of Guatemala, and their relevance for African languages. Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa, Essegbey, James, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin (eds.), pp. 177–194

Language documentation efforts tend to target the most highly endangered languages. However, language endangerment is a complex phenomenon emerging from social, political and other power imbalances in multilingual language ecologies. Long-term solutions for addressing endangerment must… read more | Article