Responses to Language Endangerment
In honor of Mickey Noonan
New directions in language documentation and language revitalization
Editors
This volume further complicates and advances the contemporary perspective on language endangerment by examining the outcomes of the most commonly cited responses to language endangerment, i.e. language documentation, language revitalization, and training. The present collection takes stock of many complex and pressing issues, such as the assessment of the degree of language endangerment, the contribution of linguistic scholarship to language revitalization programs, the creation of successful language reclamation programs, the emergence of languages that arise as a result of revitalization efforts after interrupted transmission, the ethics of fieldwork, and the training of field linguists and language educators. The volume’s case studies provide detailed personal accounts of fieldworkers and language activists who are grappling with issues of language documentation and revitalization in the concrete physical and socio-cultural settings of native speaker communities in different regions of the world.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 142] 2013. xv, 273 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 8 November 2013
Published online on 8 November 2013
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Dedication | pp. vii–viii
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Acknowledgements | pp. ix–x
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Introduction | pp. xi–xvi
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Part I. Language Endangerment: Challenges and Responses
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The world’s languages in crisis: A 20-year updateGary F. Simons and M. Paul Lewis | pp. 3–20
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What can revitalization work teach us about documentation?Marianne Mithun | pp. 21–42
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Unanswered questions in language documentation and revitalization: New directions for research and actionLenore A. Grenoble | pp. 43–58
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Training as empowering social action: An ethical response to language endangermentCarol Genetti and Rebekka Siemens | pp. 59–78
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How to avoid pitfalls in documenting endangered languagesSarah G. Thomason | pp. 79–94
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Part II. Case Studies in Documentation and Revitalization of Endangered Languages and Languages in Contact
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Converb and aspect-marking polysemy in NarKristine A. Hildebrandt | pp. 97–118
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Grammatical relations in Mixe and Chimariko: Differences and similaritiesCarmen Jany | pp. 119–140
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Having a shinshii/shiishii ‘master’ around makes you speak Japanese! Inadvertent contextualization in gathering Ikema dataToshihide Nakayama and Tsuyoshi Ono | pp. 141–156
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Internal and external calls to immigrant language promotion: Evaluating the research approach in two cases of community-engaged linguistic research in Eastern North CarolinaRicard Viñas-de-Puig | pp. 157–174
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Code-switching in an Erzya–Russian bilingual variety: An “endangered” transitory phase in a contact situationBoglárka Janurik | pp. 175–196
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Colonialism, nationalism and language vitality in AzerbaijanJohn M. Clifton | pp. 197–220
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Revitalizing languages through place-based language curriculum: Identity through learningJoana Jansen, Janne Underriner and Roger Jacob | pp. 221–242
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Remembering ancestral voices: Emergent vitalities and the future of Indigenous languagesBernard Perley | pp. 243–270
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Index | pp. 271–274
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General