Discussion Details
| Title: | Social Media and Endangered Languages |
| Submitter: | Roger Blench |
| Description: | I see from the BBC website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17081573 that 'digital tools' [i.e. Facebook, Twitter etc.] are going to save 'Endangered Languages' according to 'scientists'. No scientists are mentioned in the accompanying piece and the only languages referred to are North American. My question is whether there is any evidence at all that genuinely endangered languages elsewhere in the world are likely be be even affected by such digital tools? My experience is that the reverse is true, that new media tend to promote dominant languages and scripts. |
| Date Posted: | 20-Feb-2012 |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Language Documentation
Sociolinguistics |
| LL Issue: | 23.849 |
| Posted: | 20-Feb-2012 |
