Endangered Languages and New Technologies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Jones, Mari C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At a time when many of the world's languages are at risk of extinction, the imperative to document, analyse and teach them before time runs out is very great. At this critical time new technologies, such as visual and aural archiving, digitisation of textual resources, electronic mapping and social media, have the potential to play an integral role in language maintenance and revitalisation. Drawing on studies of endangered languages from around the world - Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America - this volume considers how these new resources might best be applied, and the problems that they can bring. It also re-assesses more traditional techniques of documentation in light of new technologies and works towards achieving a practicable synthesis of old and new methodologies. This accessible volume will be of interest to researchers in language endangerment, language typology and linguistic anthropology, and to community members working in native language maintenance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316120361
• Artikelnr.: 49269225

Inhaltsangabe

Introductory essay. Endangered languages in the new multilingual order per
genus et differentiam Nicholas Ostler; Part I. Creating New Technologies
for Endangered Languages: 1. The Kiranti comparable corpus: a prototype
corpus for the comparison of Kiranti languages and mythology Aimée
Lahaussois; 2. European dialect syntax: towards an infrastructure for
documentation and research of endangered dialects Sjef Barbiers; 3.
Keyboard layouts: lessons from the Me¿phaa and Sochiapam Chinantec designs
Hugh Paterson, III; 4. Rule-based machine translation for Aymara Matt Coler
and Petr Homola; 5. Data management and analysis for endangered languages
Dorothee Beermann; 6. Endangered languages, technology and learning:
immediate applications and long-term considerations Russell Hugo; Part II.
Applying New Technologies to Endangered Languages: 7. Digital curation and
event-driven methods at the service of endangered languages Bernard Bel and
Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus; 8. 'Allant contre vent et mathée': Jèrriais in the
twenty-first century Anthony Scott Warren and Geraint Jennings; 9. The use
of new technologies in the preservation of an endangered language: the case
of Frisian Tjeerd de Graaf, Cor van der Meer and Lysbeth Jongbloed-Faber;
10. Language description and documentation from the native speaker's point
of view: the case of the Tundra Yukaghir Cecilia Odé; 11. American Indian
sign language: documentary linguistic methodologies and technologies
Jeffrey E. Davis.