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1 Online-Ressource (xi, 445 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511620997
Series Statement:
Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language 7
Content:
Languages die for political, economic and cultural reasons, and can disappear remarkably quickly. Between ten and fifty per cent of all languages currently spoken can be considered endangered, but it is only in the past ten years or so that due importance has been given to the study of contracting and dying languages. This volume represents the first attempt to give a broad overview of current research in a developing field, and to examine some of the crucial methodological and theoretical issues to which it has given rise. It includes twenty studies by scholars who, taken together, have worked on a range of languages currently under threat across the globe. They occur in diverse speech communities where the expanding languages are not only those that are very familiar - English, Spanish, or French, for example - but also Swedish, Arabic, Thai etc. The final part of the volume is devoted to a consideration of the implications of research into language obsolescence for other aspects of linguistics and anthropology - first and second language acquisition, historical linguistics, and the study of pidgins and creoles and of language and social process. As a whole, this collection will certainly stimulate further and better co-ordinated research into a topic of direct relevance to sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics
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On language death in eastern Africa
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The disappearance of the Ugong in Thailand
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Scottish and Irish Gaelic: The giant's bed-fellows
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The rise and fall of an immigrant language: Norwegian in America
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Breton vs. French: Language and the opposition of political, economic, social, and cultural values
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"Persistence" or "tip" in Egyptian Nubian
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Sociolinguistic creativity: Cape Breton Gaelic's linguistic "tip"
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Skewed performance and full performance in language obsolescence: The case of an Albanian variety
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On the social meaning of linguistic variability in language death situations: Variation in Newfoundland French
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The social functions of relativization in obsolescent and non-obsolescent languages
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Focus on structure ; Problems in obsolescence research: The Gros Ventres of Montana
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The structural consequences of language death
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On signs of health and death
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Case usage among the Pennsylvania German sectarians and nonsectarians
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Estonian among immigrants in Sweden
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The incipient obsolescence of polysynthesis: Cayuga in Ontario and Oklahoma
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Urban and non-urban Egyptian Nubian: Is there a reduction in language skill?
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Some lexical and morphological changes in Warlpiri
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521324052
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521437578
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521324052
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511620997
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