LINGUIST List 26.624
Wed Jan 28 2015
Media: Language Matters. A Film by David Grubin
Editor for this issue: Damir Cavar <damirlinguistlist.org>
Date: 28-Jan-2015
From: Malgorzata Cavar <gosia
linguistlist.org>
Subject: Language Matters. A Film by David Grubin
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Monday, January 19, 2015 ''Language Matters'', a new film about language loss and revitalization premiered on PBS. The film discusses important issues related to endangered languages and attempts to document and revitalize them.
You can get a glimpse of the content from the program summary on the PBS web site:
"There are over 6,000 languages in the world. We lose one every two weeks. Hundreds will be lost within the next generation. By the end of this century, half of the world’s languages will have vanished. ''Language Matters'' with Bob Holman is a two-hour documentary that asks:
What do we lose when a language dies? What does it take to save a language? (...)"
More information about the movie, as well as the links to the preview and the full version of the movie are available here:
http://www.pbs.org/program/language-matters/ Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
General Linguistics
Language Documentation
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