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Publication details [#56331]

Muehlmann, Shaylih. 2012. Von Humboldt’s parrot and the countdown of last speakers in the Colorado Delta. Language & Communication 32 (2) : 160–168.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

anthropological linguistics | counting | language and culture | language loss | rhetorical effect

Language as a subject

Cucapá

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

Using fieldwork data from a Cucapá settlement in the Colorado River Delta of northern Mexico, this article demonstrates how the rhetorical practice of “counting down” last speakers of imperiled languages as they age and finally decease, has provoked an enumerative malaise.