[lg policy] `book notice: New Perspectives on Endangered Languages: Bridging gaps between sociolinguistics, documentation and language revitalization

[Dave Sayers]

Does anyone know if this is available for review anywhere? It looks 
interesting, but buying it would unbalance my bank balance. (I'm out of 
work right now, will review for food, etc.)

Dave


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Dr. Dave Sayers
Honorary Research Fellow
School of the Environment and Society
Swansea University
dave.sayers at cantab.net
http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers


On 19:59, Harold Schiffman wrote:
> New Perspectives on Endangered Languages
> Subtitle: Bridging gaps between sociolinguistics, documentation and language
> revitalization
>
> Series Title: Culture and Language Use 1
>
> Publication Year: 2010
> Publisher: John Benjamins
> http://www.benjamins.com/
>
>
> Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CLU%201
>
>
> Editor: José Antonio Flores Farfán
> Editor: Fernando F. Ramallo
>
> Electronic: ISBN: 9789027287731 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.00
> Electronic: ISBN: 9789027287731 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
> Hardback: ISBN: 9789027202819 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 90.00
> Hardback: ISBN: 9789027202819 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.40
> Hardback: ISBN: 9789027202819 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
>
>
> Abstract:
>
> Understanding sociolinguistics as a theoretical and methodological framework
> hopefully could attempt to promote change and social development in human
> communities. Yet it still presents important political, epistemological,
> methodological and theoretical challenges. A sociolinguistics of development,
> in which the revitalization of linguistic communities is the priority,
> opens new perspectives for the emerging field of linguistic documentation,
> in which the societal aspects of research, stressed by sociolinguistics, have
> frequently been marginal. The need to focus on the documentation of linguistic
> communities to contribute to the revitalization of these communities requires an
> in-depth revision of a number of different perspectives. Especially regarding
> the links between commonly separated fields of enquiry such as sociolinguistics,
> documentation and revitalization. Instead of creating mere museum pieces of
> academic contemplation for the future, as has been the major trend up to now in
> language documentation and even sociolinguistics, there is a growing concern to
> join forces to revitalize the actual use of endangered languages in order to
> place languages as a main focus of a community's development which constitutes a
> major challenge for both scholars, civil society and speakers alike.
>
> http://linguistlist.org/issues/21/21-5035.html
>
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