Julia Sallabank

Attitudes to Endangered Languages

Identities and Policies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through a combination of ethnographic research and quantitative surveys, this book presents an in-depth study of revitalisation efforts for indigenous languages in three small islands round the British Isles. It identifies and confronts key issues commonly faced by practitioners and researchers working in small language communities with little institutional support.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 285
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781108790413
• ISBN-10: 1108790410
• Artikelnr.: 58382159

Autorenporträt

Julia Sallabank is Senior Lecturer in Language Support and Revitalisation in the Endangered Languages Academic Programme at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Language endangerment, language revitalisation and language policy
2. Small islands on the periphery of Britain
3. Researching language attitudes and ideologies
4. Local language practices on a small island in the twenty-first century
5. Language attitudes, ideologies and identity on a small island
6. Language planning and policy: bottom-up and top-down
7. Implications.