Endangered Languages: Language Loss and Community Response

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This book provides an overview of the issues surrounding language loss. It brings together work by theoretical linguists, field linguists, and non-linguist members of minority communities to provide an integrated view of how language is lost, from sociological and economic as well as from linguistic perspectives. The contributions to the volume fall into four categories. The chapters by Dorian and Grenoble and Whaley provide an overview of language endangerment. Grinevald, England, Jacobs, and Nora and Richard Dauenhauer describe the situation confronting threatened languages from both a linguistic and sociological perspective. The understudied issue of what (beyond a linguistic system) can be lost as a language ceases to be spoken is addressed by Mithun, Hale, Jocks, and Woodbury. In the last section, Kapanga, Myers-Scotton, and Vakhtin consider the linguistic processes which underlie language attrition.

"This fine collection of papers is a worthy addition to the literature on language endangerment and obsolescence, which has been growing exponentially in recent years. For anyone interested in language contact, language obsolescence, and language shift (death), Endangered Languages is filled with much of value on this topical and important subject. Grenoble and Whaley are to be sincerely thanked for editing this collection." Anthropological Linguistics

"This volume is a vital addition to the literature supporting this important and growing movement within the field of linguistics and indigenous communities." Leanne Hinton, Language in Society

"...to approach this collection from the standpoint of a linguistic typologist is an enlightening task in itself: it forces a constructive engagement with material that the authors have put together with other ends in view...most of the contributions contain lingusitic descriptions, as illustations or evidence, which are detailed enough to interest formal analysts of linguistic diversity in their own right." Linguistic Typology

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
pp vii-xvi
- By Lenore A. Grenoble, Dartmouth College, Lindsay J. Whaley, Dartmouth College
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List of abbreviations and symbols
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Part I - General issues
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1 - Western language ideologies and small-language prospects
pp 3-21
- By Nancy C. Dorian, Bryn Mawr College
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2 - Toward a typology of language endangerment
pp 22-54
- By Lenore A. Grenoble, Dartmouth College, Lindsay J. Whaley, Dartmouth College
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Part II - Language-community responses
pp 55-56
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3 - Technical, emotional, and ideological issues in reversing language shift: examples from Southeast Alaska
pp 57-98
- By Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Sealaska Heritage Foundation, Juneau, Richard Dauenhauer, Sealaska Heritage Foundation, Juneau
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4 - Mayan efforts toward language preservation
pp 99-116
- By Nora C. England, The University of Iowa
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5 - A chronology of Mohawk language instruction at Kahnawà:ke
pp 117-123
- By Kaia'titahkhe Annette Jacobs, Karonhianónhnha Ionterihwaienstáhkhwa, Quebec
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6 - Language endangerment in South America: a programmatic approach
pp 124-160
- By Colette Grinevald, Université Lumière-Lyon
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Part III - What is lost: language diversity
pp 161-162
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7 - The significance of diversity in language endangerment and preservation
pp 163-191
- By Marianne Mithun, University of California
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8 - On endangered languages and the importance of linguistic diversity
pp 192-216
- By Ken Hale, Linguistics Program, MIT
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9 - Living words and cartoon translations: Longhouse “texts” and the limitations of English
pp 217-233
- By Christopher Jocks, Dartmouth College
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10 - Documenting rhetorical, aesthetic, and expressive loss in language shift
pp 234-258
- By Anthony C. Woodbury, University of Texas
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Part IV - Mechanisms of language loss
pp 259-260
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11 - Impact of language variation and accommodation theory on language maintenance: an analysis of Shaba Swahili
pp 261-288
- By André Kapanga, Illinois State University
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12 - A way to dusty death: the Matrix Language turnover hypothesis
pp 289-316
- By Carol Myers-Scotton, University of South Carolina
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13 - Copper Island Aleut: a case of language “resurrection”
pp 317-327
- By Nikolai Vakhtin, Institute of Linguistics, Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
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Appendix
pp 328-328
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References
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Index of languages
pp 348-351
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Index of names
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General index
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