Can Threatened Languages be Saved?
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Can Threatened Languages be Saved?

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Can Threatened Languages be Saved?

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Defenders of threatened languages all over the world, from advocates of biodiversity to dedicated defenders of their own cultural authenticity, are often humbled by the immensity of the task that they are faced with when the weak and the few seek to find a safe-harbour against the ravages of the strong and the many. This book provides both practical case studies and theoretical directions from all five continents and advances thereby the collective pursuit of "reversing language shift" for the greater benefit of cultural democracy everywhere.

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Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Year
2001
ISBN
9781853597060
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Sociolinguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. The Contributors
  3. Preface Reversing Language Shift: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
  4. Chapter 1 Why is it so Hard to Save a Threatened Language?
  5. Chapter 2 Reversing Navajo Language Shift, Revisited
  6. Chapter 3 How Threatened is the Spanish of New York Puerto Ricans?
  7. Chapter 4 A Decade in the Life of a Two-in-One Language
  8. Chapter 5 Reversing Language Shift in Quebec
  9. Chapter 6 OtomĂ­ Language Shift and Some Recent Efforts to Reverse It
  10. Chapter 7 Reversing Quechua Language Shift in South America
  11. Chapter 8 Irish Language Production and Reproduction 1981–1996
  12. Chapter 9 A Frisian Update of Reversing Language Shift
  13. Chapter 10 Reversing Language Shift: The Case of Basque
  14. Chapter 11 Catalan a Decade Later
  15. Chapter 12 Saving Threatened Languages in Africa: A Case Study of Oko
  16. Chapter 13 Andamanese: Biological Challenge for Language Reversal
  17. Chapter 14 Akor Itak – Our Language, Your Language: Ainu in Japan
  18. Chapter 15 Hebrew After a Century of RLS Efforts
  19. Can the Shift from Immigrant Languages be Reversed in Australia?
  20. Chapter 17 Is the Extinction of Australia’s Indigenous Languages Inevitable?
  21. Chapter 18 RLS in Aotearoa/New Zealand 1989–1999
  22. Chapter 19 From Theory to Practice (and Vice Versa): Review, Reconsideration and Reiteration
  23. Index