Language endangerment and language maintenance
By: edited by David Bradley and Maya Bradley.
Contributors: Bradley, David, 1947-; Bradley, Maya.
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Language maintenance; Language attrition
Table of contents: title: ch. 1.; title: Language attitudes : the key factor in language maintenance -- David Bradley -- ch. 2.; title: Strategies for language maintenance and revival -- Stephen A. Wurm -- ch. 3.; title: Traditional multilingualism and language endangerment -- Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- ch. 4.; title: Why one cannot preserve languages (but can preserve language ecologies) -- Peter Mühlhäusler -- ch. 5.; title: Irish and Finland Swedish; title: Anders Ahlqvist -- -- ch. 6.; title: Working together to strengthen Smʾalgyax (Tsimshian Nation, British Columbia, Canada) -- Tonya Stebbins -- ch. 7.; title: Language policy and language maintenance : Yi in China -- David Bradley -- & -- Maya Bradley -- ch. 8.; title: Tai languages of Assam, a progress report : does anything remain of the Tai Ahom language? -- Stephen Morey -- ch. 9. The; title: impact of Malay on Taba : a type of incipient language death or incipient death of a language type? -- John Bowden -- ch. 10.; title: Language obsolescence : progress or decay? : the emergence of new grammatical categories in 'language death' -- Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- ch. 11.; title: Reclaiming languages in aboriginal Victoria -- Barry Blake -- ch. 12. A; title: language plan for Norfolk Island -- Peter Mühlhäusler -- ch. 13.; title: Language maintenance and survival in East Timor : all change now? : winners and losers -- John Hajek -- ch. 14.; title: Steel tyres or rubber tyres, maintenance or loss : Pennsylvania German in the "horse and buggy" communities of Ontario -- Kate Burridge -- ch. 15.; title: Language maintenance at the micro level : Hmong ex-refugee communities -- Christina Eira -- ch. 16.; title: Community initiatives towards language renewal among Moluccan migrants in the Netherlands -- Margaret Florey -- ch. 17.; title: Concealment, maintenance and renaissance : language and ethnicity in the Moluccan community in the Netherlands -- Aone van Engelenhoven -- ch. 18.; title: Extinction in whose terms? Which parts of a language constitute a target for language maintenance programmes? -- Nicholas Thieberger -- ch. 19.; title: Dictionaries and endangered languages -- Miriam Corris -- ... [et al.] -- ch. 20. Conclusion :; title: resources for language maintenance-- David Bradley-- &-- Maya Bradley.