26.624, Media: Language Matters. A Film by David Grubin

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-624. Wed Jan 28 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.624, Media: Language Matters. A Film by David Grubin

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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:22:40
From: Malgorzata Cavar [gosia at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Language Matters. A Film by David Grubin

 
Dear colleagues,

Monday, January 19, 2015 ''Language Matters'', a new film about language loss
and revitalization premiered on PBS. The film discusses  important issues
related to endangered languages and attempts to document and revitalize them.

You can get a glimpse of the content from the program summary on the PBS web
site: 
"There are over 6,000 languages in the world. We lose one every two weeks.
Hundreds will be lost within the next generation. By the end of this century,
half of the world’s languages will have vanished. ''Language Matters'' with
Bob Holman is a two-hour documentary that asks:
What do we lose when a language dies? What does it take to save a language?
(...)"

More information about the movie, as well as the links to the preview and the
full version of the movie are available here:

http://www.pbs.org/program/language-matters/
 


Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Language Documentation






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