| Description |
1 online resource (156 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Culture and language use, 1879-5838 ; v. 1 |
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Culture and language use ; v. 1.
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| Contents |
Exploring links between documentation, sociolinguistics and language revitalization : an introduction / José Antonio Flores Farfán & Fernando Ramallo -- The social life of a language : will Manambu survive / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- The private and the public in documentation and revitalization / Nancy C. Dorian -- Bridging linguistic research and linguistic documentation : the Kuikuro experience (Brazil) / Bruna Franchetto -- Language vitality and revitalization in the Arctic / Lenore A. Grenoble -- The demise and attempted revival of Uchumataqu (Uru) : values and actors / Pieter Muysken -- Linguistic vitality in the Awetí indigenous community : a case study from the Upper Xingu multilingual area / Sabine Reiter -- Linking three agendas : opening a debate and directions for the future / Fernando Ramallo & José Antonio Flores Farfán |
| Summary |
Understanding sociolinguistics as a theoretical and methodological framework hopefully could attempt to promote change and social development in human communities. Yet it still presents important political, epistemological, methodological and theoretical challenges. A sociolinguistics of development, in which the revitalization of linguistic communities is the priority, opens new perspectives for the emerging field of linguistic documentation, in which the societal aspects of research, stressed by sociolinguistics, have frequently been marginal. The need to focus on the documentation of lingui |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics.
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Endangered languages.
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Language obsolescence.
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Linguistic change.
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sociolinguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabet.
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Endangered languages
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Language obsolescence
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Linguistic change
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Sociolinguistics
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Bedrohte Sprache
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Soziolinguistik
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Sprachwandel
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Bedrohte Sprache.
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Sprachwandel.
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Soziolinguistik.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Flores Farfán, José Antonio, editor
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Ramallo, Fernando F., editor
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| LC no. |
2010028102 |
| ISBN |
9789027287731 |
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9027287732 |
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9781282897359 |
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1282897357 |
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9786612897351 |
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661289735X |
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