Sarah G Thomason

Endangered Languages

An Introduction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An introduction to language endangerment. What is it? How and why does it happen? Why should we care?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 178mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780521865739
• ISBN-10: 0521865735
• Artikelnr.: 41755043

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.