Sustaining linguistic diversity : endangered and minority languages and language varieties /
In the last three decades the field of endangered and minority languages has evolved rapidly, moving from the initial dire warnings of linguists to a swift increase in the number of organizations, funding programs, and community-based efforts dedicated to documentation, maintenance, and revitalizati...
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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
2008
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Series: | Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics
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Table of Contents:
- Linguistic diversity, sustainability, and the future of the past / Suzanne Romaine
- When is an "extinct language" not extinct? : Miami, a formerly sleeping language / Wesley Y. Leonard
- Evaluating endangerment : proposed metadata and implementation / M. Paul Lewis
- Endangered language varieties : vernacular speech and linguistic standardization in Brazilian Portuguese / Gregory R. Guy and Ana M.S. Zilles
- The linguistic negotiation of complex racialized identities by Black Appalachian speakers / Christine Mallinson
- Working at "9 to 5" Gaelic : speakers, context, and ideologies of an emerging minority language register / Emily McEwan-Fujita
- Voice and biliteracy in indigenous language revitalization : contentious educational practices in Quechua, Guarani, and Maori contexts / Nancy H. Hornberger
- Endangering language vitality through institutional development : ideology, authority, and official standard Irish in the Gaeltacht / Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin
- Scandinavian minority language policies in transition : the impact of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Norway and Sweden / Leena Huss
- Language development in Eritrea : the case of Blin / Paul D. Fallon
- Indigenous language policies in social practice : the case of Navajo / Teresa L. McCarty, Mary Eunice Romero-Little, and Ofelia Zepeda
- Heritage language education in the United States : a need to reconceptualize and restructure / Joy Kreeft Peyton [and others]
- Language diversity and the public interest / Walt Wolfram
- At what cost? : methods of language revival and protection : examples from Hebrew / Elana Shohamy
- Unendangered dialects, endangered people / William Labov.