30.69, Books: The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages: Rehg, Campbell (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:16:08
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages: Rehg, Campbell (eds.)

 


Title: The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-endangered-languages-9780190610029 


Editor: Kenneth L. Rehg
Editor: Lyle Campbell

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190610029 Pages: 976 Price: U.S. $ 175


Abstract:

The endangered languages crisis is widely acknowledged among scholars who deal
with languages and indigenous peoples as one of the most pressing problems
facing humanity, posing moral, practical, and scientific issues of enormous
proportions. Simply put, no area of the world is immune from language
endangerment.

The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages, in 39 chapters, provides a
comprehensive overview of the efforts that are being undertaken to deal with
this crisis. A comprehensive reference reflecting the breadth of the field,
the Handbook presents in detail both the range of thinking about language
endangerment and the variety of responses to it, and broadens understanding of
language endangerment, language documentation, and language revitalization,
encouraging further research. 

The Handbook is organized into five parts. Part 1, Endangered Languages,
addresses the fundamental issues that are essential to understanding the
nature of the endangered languages crisis. Part 2, Language Documentation,
provides an overview of the issues and activities of concern to linguists and
others in their efforts to record and document endangered languages. Part 3,
Language Revitalization, includes approaches, practices, and strategies for
revitalizing endangered and sleeping ("dormant") languages. Part 4, Endangered
Languages and Biocultural Diversity, extends the discussion of language
endangerment beyond its conventional boundaries to consider the
interrelationship of language, culture, and environment, and the common forces
that now threaten the sustainability of their diversity. Part 5, Looking to
the Future, addresses a variety of topics that are certain to be of
consequence in future efforts to document and revitalize endangered languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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