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Evans, Nicholas

Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

Evans, Nicholas - Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us, ebook

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The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.

  • Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our collective intellectual heritage
  • Questions why such linguistic diversity exists in the first place, and how can we can best respond to the challenge of recording and documenting these fragile oral traditions while they are still with us
  • Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, and draws on a wealth of vivid examples from his own field experience
  • Brings conceptual issues vividly to life by weaving in portraits of individual ‘last speakers’ and anecdotes about linguists and their discoveries

Keywords: General & Introductory Linguistics, language extinction, language endangerment, language death, linguistics, language variation, language revitalization, sociolinguistics, language, tradition, culture, community, globalization, colonialism

Author(s)
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Publication year
2011
Language
en
Edition
1
Series
The Language Library
Page amount
312 pages
Category
Languages
Format
Ebook
eISBN (ePUB)
9781444359619
Printed ISBN
9780631233060

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