Book: Endangered languages and the media

[Scott McGinnis]

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 village
Schools Project in Northern Namibia
Annatjie Louw: Is language shift to English imminent  amongst young
Afrikaans-
speakers in Rehoboth Gebiet?
Helene E. Hagan: Funding an ethnic diversity Public Access Television
Program in the USA JosZ^ 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 berbre ^ travers
la dZ^formation et la transformation du nom propre berbre 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 Foundation for Endangered
Languages.
- a check (in US $) payable to Nicholas Ostler.
- proof of having sent an equivalent sum in your own currency to the
societys account, Foundation for Endangered Languages, Account no:
50073456, The Cooperative Bank (Sort code: 08-90-02), 16 St.
Stephen's Street, Bristol  BS1 1JR, England.
- or by credit card (Visa, MasterCard, EuroCard), enclosing Card
number, Expiry date (month | year), Name (as on card), and Address
(as on card).

To expedite delivery, please send orders to the below address.


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                        Nicholas  Ostler
              Foundation for Endangered Languages
                UK Registered Charity 1070616
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        http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Philosophy/CTLL/FEL/

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