Sarah G. Thomason (Ann Arbor University of Michigan)

Endangered Languages

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An introduction to the topic of language endangerment, answering questions such as: what is it? How and why does it happen? Wy should we care? The book outlines the causes of language endangerment, explaining what makes a language 'safe', and highlighting the danger signs that threaten a minority language.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780521684538
• ISBN-10: 0521684536
• Artikelnr.: 41754318

Autorenporträt

Sarah G. Thomason is William J. Gedney Collegiate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan. Her previous publications include Language Contact: An Introduction (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Why and how languages become endangered
3. Sliding into dormancy: social processes and linguistic effects
4. What a community loses: language loss as cultural loss
5. What science loses: language loss as a threat to our understanding of human history, human cognition, and the natural world
6. Field research on endangered languages
7. Language preservation and revitalization.