ELL: Endangered Languages and the Media

[Jon Reyhner]

Nicholas:

I just sent in last week a membership renewal for $50.00 US, and I am looking
forward to receiving the Agadir proceedings.

Jon Reyhner

Nicholas Ostler wrote:

> The proceedings of the Foundation for Endangered Languages' fifth conference,
> in Agadir, are now available:
>
> "Endangered Languages and the Media"
> ed. Christopher Moseley, Nicholas Ostler, Hassan Ouzzate
> (ISBN 0-9538248-3-7)
>
> It is an 131-page volume, and the contents look like this:
>
> Index of Authors
> Index of Languages and Families
> Chris Moseley, Nicholas Ostler, Hassan Ouzzate  Prospect: Endangered
> Languages and the Media
>
> Section 1       Setting the Scene: Our Place in the Media
> George Jones    Keynote Address: The state and the global marketplace
> in the provision of minority media services
> Paul Lewis      Local language media:what does it take?
> Lachman Khubchandani    Power of the media for the good of small
> languages: an Indian experience of enriching diversity
>
> Section 2       How the State Caters for Language Minorities
> Samira El Atia & Douglas Kibbee Language Protection & Cultural Policy in France
> Brigitta Busch  The virtual village square. Media in minority
> languages in the process of media diversification and globalisation:
> An example from Southern Carinthia (Austria)
> Jilali  Saib    Maintenance & promotion of Berber: the role of the
> electronic media
>
> Section 3       Self-Help: Grass-Roots Solutions for Small Languages
> Thomas Sawallis Language in the Media Environment of the Florida Seminole
> Elena Benedicto, Ely Frank, Pulinario Sebasti?n, Sim—n Avelino
>         Indigenous Presence in the Nicaraguan Media: the Mayangna
>
> Section 4       New Media: a Place for Small Languages in Cyberspace
> Mohamed Ouakrim Promoting the maintenance of endangered languages
> through the Internet: the case of Tamazight
> Erica McClure   The role of language in the construction of ethnic
> identity on the Internet: the case of Assyrian activists in Diaspora
> Onno Falkena    Frisian all over the world: the unique experience of one year
>
> Section 5       Open Forum: Some Briefer Thoughts
> Tapani Salminen Television news bulletins in Forest Nenets
> Joe Pfaffe & Susan Schulman     Nyae Nyae Revisited - the Òvillage
> Schools ProjectÓ in Northern Namibia
> Annatjie Louw   Is language shift to English imminent  amongst young
> Afrikaans-speakers in Rehoboth Gebiet?
> Helene E. Hagan Funding an Òethnic diversityÓ Public Access
> Television Program in the USA
> Jos* Flores Farf?n      The use of different media in reversing
> language shift: Nahua Illustrations
> Mark L. Chamberlin  & Heno Sarv Geographic Center for Interactive
> Interdisciplinary Information
>
> Section 6       Cementing the Community: Media as Carriers of
> Minority Traditions
> Bernard Hervieux        The new vibrations of the traditional "teueikan"
> Asunci—n Mart’nez Arbelaiz      Basque in the media
> Julia Lonergan & Patricia Small Tarahumara ritual spectacle in
> Noriahuachi: visual metaphor experienced through mass media
>
> Section 7       Language in the Ether: Across Political Boundaries
> Aurolyn Luykx   Across the Andean Airwaves: Satellite radio
> broadcasting in Quechua
> Abdallah El Mountassir  Le sort de la langue berb*re ˆ travers la
> d*formation et la transformation du nom propre berb*re
> Helena Drysdale Silenced or liberated: Endangered languages in the
> European Union
> Foundation for Endangered Languages: Manifesto
>
> Copies are now available to non-members, at 18 pounds sterling ($30
> US) apiece (including surface postage and packing).  For air-mail
> dispatch, please add 7.50 pounds/$12.50.
> (Members can contact me at the address below for more favourable
> rates.  Full members receive a copy automatically.)
>
> You can pay by
> - a cheque (in pounds sterling) payable to ÒFoundation for Endangered
> LanguagesÓ.
> - a check (in US $) payable to ÒNicholas OstlerÓ.
> - proof of having sent an equivalent sum in your own currency to the
> societyÕs account, ÒFoundation for Endangered LanguagesÓ, Account no:
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