30.3430, Books: Endangered Languages and New Technologies: Jones (ed.)

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:47:36
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: Endangered Languages and New Technologies: Jones (ed.)

 


Title: Endangered Languages and New Technologies 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/endangered-languages-and-new-technologies?format=PB 


Editor: Mari C. Jones

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107627840 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 29.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107627840 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107627840 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 26.83


Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

At a time when many of the world's languages are at risk of extinction, the
imperative to document, analyse and teach them before time runs out is very
great. At this critical time new technologies, such as visual and aural
archiving, digitisation of textual resources, electronic mapping and social
media, have the potential to play an integral role in language maintenance and
revitalisation. Drawing on studies of endangered languages from around the
world - Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America - this volume
considers how these new resources might best be applied, and the problems that
they can bring. It also re-assesses more traditional techniques of
documentation in light of new technologies and works towards achieving a
practicable synthesis of old and new methodologies. This accessible volume
will be of interest to researchers in language endangerment, language typology
and linguistic anthropology, and to community members working in native
language maintenance.

Introductory essay. Endangered languages in the new multilingual order per
genus et differentiam Nicholas Ostler; Part I. Creating New Technologies for
Endangered Languages: 1. The Kiranti comparable corpus: a prototype corpus for
the comparison of Kiranti languages and mythology Aimée  Lahaussois; 2.
European dialect syntax: towards an infrastructure for documentation and
research of endangered dialects Sjef Barbiers; 3. Keyboard layouts: lessons
from the Meꞌphaa and Sochiapam Chinantec designs Hugh Paterson, III; 4.
Rule-based machine translation for Aymara Matt Coler and Petr Homola; 5. Data
management and analysis for endangered languages Dorothee Beermann; 6.
Endangered languages, technology and learning: immediate applications and
long-term considerations Russell Hugo; Part II. Applying New Technologies to
Endangered Languages: 7. Digital curation and event-driven methods at the
service of endangered languages Bernard Bel and Médéric  Gasquet-Cyrus; 8.
'Allant contre vent et mathée': Jèrriais in the twenty-first century Anthony
Scott Warren and Geraint Jennings; 9. The use of new technologies in the
preservation of an endangered language: the case of Frisian Tjeerd de Graaf,
Cor van der Meer and Lysbeth Jongbloed-Faber; 10. Language description and
documentation from the native speaker's point of view: the case of the Tundra
Yukaghir Cecilia Odé; 11. American Indian sign language: documentary
linguistic methodologies and technologies Jeffrey E. Davis.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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