Language Death

Description

Gauging that half of the world's estimated 6000 languages are threatened with extinction in the next 100 years, Crystal (editor, Cambridge Encyclopedia) explains why this is problematic and what can be done about it. He analyzes statistics that indicate the number of dying languages, explains the physical and cultural pressures contributing to language death, and cites bi- and multilingualism as the key to maintaining linguistic diversity. He also appeals to multiculturalism, noting the unique contributions linguistic diversity makes to both the arts and the sciences. Moreover, Crystal provides six characteristics of successful language maintenance efforts, which ideally combine literacy and education with improving the economic and political standing of the minority-language community. This well-documented book serves best as a starting point for further research. Not listed in the bibliography are two related books also being published this year: in Vanishing Voices (LJ 6/15/00), Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine examine the current domination of a few languages and provide economic and ecological motivation to support linguistic diversity, while editor Joshua Fishman's forthcoming Can Threatened Languages Be Saved? (Multilingual Matters, 2000) contains case studies about a number of languages.

Review
"His apparatus is remarkably useful and lucid. Especially valuable are his indexes of dialects, languages, language families, and ethnic groups...Language Death offers compact, profound, and easily accessible insights into the problem of linguistic extinction." Choice












--mirror--> http://rapidshare.com/files/94171546/Language_Death.rar.html

Disclaimer:
Contents of this page are indexed from the Internet. All actions are under your responsability. Email us to report illegal contents or external links and we'll remove them immediately.

Please check the description for download links if any or do a search to find alternative books.

Can't Download?
Please search mirrors if you can't find download links for "Language Death" in "Description" and someone else may update the links. Check the comments when back to find any updates.

Search Mirrors
Maybe some mirror pages will be helpful, search this book at top of this page or click here to find more info.

1. Ebooks list page : 1589
2. Language and Death
3. Language Death
4. Crib Death: Sudden Unexplained Death of Infants - The Pathologist's Viewpoint
5. In the Face of Death: Professionals Who Care for the Dying and the Bereaved (Springer Series on Death and Suicide)
6. Into the Jaws of Yama, Lord of Death: Buddhism, Bioethics, and Death
7. Beyond Death Anxiety: Achieving Life-Affirming Death Awareness
8. History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian
9. Dreaming Beyond Death: A Guide to Pre-Death Dreams and Visions
10. Dreaming Beyond Death: A Guide to Pre-Death Dreams and Visions
11. The Evolution of Language Out of Pre-Language (Typological Studies in Language)
12. From Corpus to Classroom: Language Use and Language Teaching (Cambridge Language Teaching Library)
13. Artificial Intelligence in Second Language Learning: Raising Error Awareness (Second Language Acquisition)
14. Language Development 2: Circle Time Sessions to Improve Language Skills (Spirals)
15. The Balancing Act: Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language (Language, Speech, and Communication)
16. Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology (Studies in Natural Language Processing)