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Ethnographic contributions to the study of endangered languages / edited by Tania Granadillo and Heidi A. Orcutt-Gachiri ; with a foreword by Jane H. Hill ; and an afterword by Ofelia Zepeda

Catalog Data

Author:
Granadillo, Tania  Search this
Orcutt-Gachiri, Heidi A. 1970-  Search this
Physical description:
x, 230 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2011
C2011
Contents:
Language ideologies in the discourse of education that promote language shift in Kenya / Heidi A. Orcutt-Gachiri -- Education and its role in language endangerment in Siberia and the Far East / Olga Kazakevich -- Is English education always detrimental to vernacular languages? : education and language endangerment from a Papua New Guinean perspective / M. Lynn Landweer -- Indigenous language revitalization in Tecate, Baja California : a narrative account / Paula Meyer, with Jon Meza Cuero -- Territory, identity, and language among the Añun people (Venezuela) / Marie-France Patte -- The agency of language ideologies in Miami Indian recovery / Melissa A. Rinehart -- Stolen life, preserved language : life and death and endangered languages / Barbara G. Hoffman -- Kurripako and its speakers in Venezuela : a linguistic anthropological analysis of language endangerment / Tania Granadillo -- Language loss in a beautiful scenery : the case of Öömrang, a Frisian dialect in northern Germany / Lars von Karstedt -- Agency and ideology in language shift and language maintenance / Mark A. Sicoli -- Intersections : history, language, and globalization in the North Carolina Cherokee communities / Heidi M. Altman -- Afterword / Ofelia Zepeda
Topic:
Endangered languages  Search this
Language attrition  Search this
Ethnology  Search this
Anthropological linguistics  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_970181