Date: 15-Oct-2008 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages: Harrison, Rood, Dwyer (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages
Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 78
Published: 2008
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: K. David Harrison
Editor: David S. Rood
Editor: Arienne Dwyer
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027290205 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 115.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027290205 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 173.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027229908 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 115.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027229908 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 173.00
Abstract:
This volume represents part of an unprecedented and still growing effort to advance, coordinate and disseminate the scientific documentation of endangered languages. As the pace of language extinction increases, linguists and native communities are accelerating their efforts to speak, remember, record, analyze and archive as much as possible of our common human heritage that is linguistic diversity. The window of opportunity for documentation is narrower than the actual lifetime of a language, and is now rapidly closing for many languages represented in this volume. The authors of these papers unveil newly collected data from previously poorly known and endangered languages. They organize highly complex linguistic facts - paradigms, affixes, vowel patterns - while pointing out the theoretically challenging aspects of these. Beyond this, they reflect on the social and human dimensions, discussing particular problems of nostalgia and modernity, memory and forgetting, and obsolescence and ethics, while viewing language as not merely data on a page but as a living creation in the minds and mouths of its speakers.
Linguistic Field(s):
General Linguistics
Language Documentation
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