Ethnographic contributions to the study of endangered languages
By: edited by Tania Granadillo and Heidi A. Orcutt-Gachiri ; with a foreword by Jane H. Hill ; and an afterword by Ofelia Zepeda
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780816526994
Subjects: Language attrition; Anthropological linguistics; Endangered languages; Ethnology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Language ideologies in the discourse of education that promote language shift in Kenya / Heidi A. Orcutt-Gachiri; title: Education and its role in language endangerment in Siberia and the Far East / Olga Kazakevich; title: Is English education always detrimental to vernacular languages? : education and language endangerment from a Papua New Guinean perspective / M. Lynn Landweer; title: Indigenous language revitalization in Tecate, Baja California : a narrative account / Paula Meyer, with Jon Meza Cuero; title: Territory, identity, and language among the Añun people (Venezuela) / Marie-France Patte; title: The agency of language ideologies in Miami Indian recovery / Melissa A. Rinehart; title: Stolen life, preserved language : life and death and endangered languages / Barbara G. Hoffman; title: Kurripako and its speakers in Venezuela : a linguistic anthropological analysis of language endangerment / Tania Granadillo; title: Language loss in a beautiful scenery : the case of Öömrang, a Frisian dialect in northern Germany / Lars von Karstedt; title: Agency and ideology in language shift and language maintenance / Mark A. Sicoli; title: Intersections : history, language, and globalization in the North Carolina Cherokee communities / Heidi M. Altman; title: Afterword / Ofelia Zepeda.