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Books: Sociolinguistics: Saxena, Borin (Eds)

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Message 1: Lesser-Known Languages of South Asia: Saxena, Borin (Eds)
Date: 18-Sep-2006
From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com>
Subject: Lesser-Known Languages of South Asia: Saxena, Borin (Eds)


Title: Lesser-Known Languages of South Asia Subtitle: Status and Policies, Case Studies and Applications of Information Technology Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 175 Published: 2006 Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
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Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110189763-1&l=D

Editor: Anju Saxena, Uppsala University Editor: Lars Borin, Göteborg University Hardback: ISBN: 3110189763 Pages: 386 Price: Europe EURO 98.00 Comment: for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 132.30
Abstract:

The increasing globalization and centralization in the world is threateningthe existence of a large number of smaller languages. In South Asia somelocally dominant languages (e.g., Hindi, Urdu, Nepali) are gaining groundbeside English at the expense of the lesser-known languages. Despite a longhistory of stable multilingualism, language death is not uncommon in theSouth Asian context. We do not know how the language situation in SouthAsia will be affected by modern information and communication technologies:Will cultural and linguistic diversity be strengthened or weakened as theybecome increasingly prevalent in all walks of life?

This volume brings together areas of research that so far do not interactto any significant extent: traditional South Asian descriptive linguisticsand sociolinguistics, documentary linguistics, issues of intellectual andcultural property and fieldwork ethics, and language technology.Researchers working in the areas of documentary linguistics and languagetechnology have become aware of each other in the last few years, and ofhow work in the other area could be potentially useful in furthering theirown aims. Similarly, the insights of documentary linguistics are makingtheir way into descriptive linguistics and sociolinguistics. However, thepotential for synergy among these areas of research is almost limitless.

This volume provides the reader, not so much with a do-it-yourself recipefor applying modern technology to the problem of language shift in SouthAsia today, but rather with some basic knowledge about the problemsinvolved and some directions from which solutions could be forthcoming, atoolbox rather than a blueprint, for helping to shape the linguistic futureof South Asia.

Contents

IntroductionAnju Saxena

Language situation and language policies in South Asia

Status of lesser-known languages in IndiaUdaya Narayana Singh

Minority language policies and politics in NepalMark Turin

Language policy, multilingualism and language vitality in PakistanTariq Rahman

Lesser-known language communities of South Asia: Linguistic andsociolinguistic case studies

Vanishing voices: A typological sketch of Great AndamaneseAnvita Abbi

Lisu orthographies and emailDavid Bradley

Shina in contemporary PakistanRazwal Kohistani and Ruth Laila Schmidt

The rise of ethnic consciousness and the politicization of language inwest-central NepalMichael Noonan

Why Ladakhi must not be written - Being part of the great tradition:Another kind of global thinkingBettina Zeisler

Information and communication technologies and languages of South Asia

The impact of technology on language diversity and multilingualismE. Annamalai

The impact of technological advances on Tamil language use and planningVasu Renganathan and Harold F. Schiffman

Corpus-building for South Asian languagesAndrew Hardie, Paul Baker, Tony McEnery and B. D. Jayaram

Digitized resources for languages of NepalBoyd Michailovsky

Multimedia: A community-oriented information and communication technologyDavid Nathan and Éva Á. Csató

Language survival kitsJens Allwood

Grammatically based language technology for minority languagesTrond Trosterud

Supporting lesser-known languages: The promise of language technologyLars Borin

Worrying about ethics and wondering about "informed consent": Fieldworkfrom an Americanist perspectiveColette Grinevald

Subject index, Language index

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Written In: English (eng )

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