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Language endangerment
Up to ninety percent of humanity's traditional languages and cultures are at risk and may disappear this century. While language endangerment has not achieved the publicity surrounding environmental change and biodiversity loss, it is just as serious, disastrously reducing the variety of human knowledge and thought. This book shows why it matters, why and how it happens, and what communities and scholars can do about it. David and Maya Bradley provide a new framework for investigating and documenting linguistic, social and other factors which contribute to languages shifting away from their cultural heritage. Illustrated with practical in-depth case studies and examples from the authors' own work in Asia and elsewhere, the book encourages communities to maintain or reclaim their traditional languages and cultures.
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Rejecting the Marginalized Status of Minority Languages
This book explores Indigenous, tribal and minority (ITM)
language education in oral and/or written communication and in the
use of new technologies and online resources for pedagogical
purposes in diverse geopolitical contexts. It demonstrates that ITM
language education transpires in both formal and informal spaces
for children or adults and that sometimes these spaces are online,
where they become de-territorialized discourses of teaching and
learning.' The volume brings together examples of ITM language
education that are challenging the forces that flatten
'languacultures' into artefacts of history. It also examines the
economic and material realities of the people who live in and
through their 'languacultures', or who aspire to do as much. The
book will be useful for educators and all those interested in
Indigenous and minority language issues, as well as for a wide
range of undergraduate, graduate and research contexts where topics
of language education and minority rights are the focus.
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Endangered languages : an introduction
\"Most of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will vanish before the end of this century, taking with them cultural traditions from all over the world, as well as linguistic structures that would have improved our understanding of the universality and variability of human language. This book is an accessible introduction to the topic of language endangerment, answering questions such as: What is it? How and why does it happen? And why should we care? The book outlines the various causes of language endangerment; explaining what makes a language \"safe\", and highlighting the danger signs that threaten a minority language. Readers will learn about the consequences of losing a language, both for its former speech community and for our understanding of human language. Illustrated with case studies, it describes the various methods of documenting endangered languages, and shows how they can be revitalised\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Language Decline and Death in Africa
The aim of this book is to inform both scholars and the public about the nature and extent of the problem of language decline and death in Africa. It resourcefully traces the main causes and circumstances of language endangerment, the processes and extent of language shift and death, and the consequences of language loss to the continent's rich linguistic and cultural heritage. The book outlines some of the challenges that have emerged out of the situation.
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Saving Languages
Language endangerment has been the focus of much attention and as a result, a wide range of people are working to revitalize and maintain local languages. This book serves as a general reference guide to language revitalization, written not only for linguists and anthropologists, but also for language activists and community members who believe they should ensure the future use of their languages, despite their predicted loss. Drawing extensively on case studies, it sets out the necessary background and highlights central issues such as literacy, policy decisions, and allocation of resources. Its primary goal is to provide the essential tools for a successful language revitalization program, such as setting and achieving realistic goals, and anticipating and resolving common obstacles. Clearly written and informative, Saving Languages will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in the fate of small language communities around the globe.
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Discourses of endangerment : ideology and interest in the defence of languages
Current academic discussions and public debates about language frequently focus on the importance of defending languages against various kinds of dangers.Many of these current debates attach great importance to linguistic diversity.
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Language death : factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa
No detailed description available for \"Language Death\".
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A collective artefact design of decision support systems: design science research perspective
Purpose
– The knowledge of artefact design in design science research can have an important application in the improvement of decision support systems (DSS) development research. Recent DSS literature has identified a significant need to develop user-centric DSS method for greater relevance with respect to context of use. The purpose of this paper is to develop a collective DSS design artefact as method in a practical industry context.
Design/methodology/approach
– Under the influence of goal-directed interaction design principles the study outlines the innovative DSS artefact based on design science methodology to deliver a cutting-edge decision support solution, which provides user-centric provisions through the use of design environment and ontology techniques.
Findings
– The DSS artefact as collective information technology applications through the application of design science knowledge can effectively be designed to meet decision makers’ contextual needs in an agricultural industry context.
Research limitations/implications
– The study has limitations in that it was developed in a case study context and remains to be fully tested in a real business context. It is also assumed that the domain decisions can be parameterised and represented using a constraint programming language.
Practical implications
– The paper concludes that the DSS artefact design and this development successfully overcomes some of the limitations of traditional DSS such as low-user uptake, system obsolescence, low returns on investment and a requirement for continual re-engineering effort.
Social implications
– The design artefact has the potential of increasing user uptake in an industry that has had relevancy problems with past DSS implementation and has experienced associated poor uptake.
Originality/value
– The design science paradigm provides structural guidance throughout the defined process, helping ensure fidelity both to best industry knowledge and to changing user contexts.
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Language death and language maintenance : theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches
Languages are dying at an alarming rate all over the world. Estimates range from 50% to as much as 90% by the end of the century. This collection of original papers tries to strike a balance between theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches to language death and language maintenance. It provides overviews of language endangerment in Africa, Eurasia, and the Greater Pacific Area. It also presents case studies of endangered languages from various language families. These descriptive case studies not only provide data on the degree of endangerment and the causes of language death, but also provide a general sociolinguistic and typological characterization the language(s) under discussion and the prospects of language maintenance (if any). The volume will be of interest to all those concerned with the ongoing extinction of the world's linguistic diversity.
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Fundamentación textual en el Corpus del español del siglo XXI (CORPES) del americanismo obsolescente. Variables de un estudio de caso
Los diccionarios utilizan la marca obsolescencia para indicar, además del potencial proceso de mortandad léxica, el uso restringido de ciertas palabras en determinados contextos discursivos. Todas estas posibilidades descubren un problema de investigación que se especifica en el desconocimiento de cómo se usan estos vocablos en los textos generados en distintas áreas lingüísticas de América. En este trabajo planteamos que es viable aportar datos sincrónicos que clarifiquen lo anterior a través de reconocer los parámetros con los que aparecen las voces obsolescentes en los textos actuales. Con este fin se ha diseñado una investigación empírica de estudio de caso con un lexicón de vocablos obsolescentes de América obtenidos del Diccionario de Americanismos. Posteriormente, se realizó una búsqueda textual de aquellas voces que fue posible documentar en el Corpus del español del siglo XXI. Se trata de noventa y ocho voces obsolescentes que analizamos según las variables ficción/no ficción, geográfica, número de documentos y sus distintas frecuencias. Los resultados muestran que algunas unidades léxicas se utilizan exclusivamente en una determinada tipología textual, pero el grupo más numeroso aparece de manera general. También, se evidencia la similitud en los textos entre áreas lingüísticas vecinas, con la excepción de México, Centroamérica, Caribe Continental y Río de la Plata. Nuestra indagación es una contribución a la caracterización del americanismo léxico desde la fundamentación textual sincrónica.
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