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Policy and planning for endangered languages

Jones, Mari C. editor

Overview

\"Language policy issues are imbued with a powerful symbolism that is often linked to questions of identity, with the suppression or failure to recognise and support a given endangered variety representing a refusal to grant a 'voice' to the corresponding ethno-cultural community. This wide-ranging volume, which explores linguistic scenarios from across five continents, seeks to ignite the debate as to how and whether the interface between people, politics and language can affect the fortunes of endangered varieties. With chapters written by academics working in the field of language endangerment and members of indigenous communities on the frontline of language support and maintenance, Policy and Planning for Endangered Languages is essential reading for researchers and students of language death, sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, as well as community members involved in native language maintenance\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Endangered languages. / Language obsolescence. / Language planning. / Language policy. / Language maintenance. / Language and culture.
• ISBN: 9781107099227, 1107099226

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
P40.5.E53 P65 2015	1	BOOK	GENERAL