Endangered Languages and the Media

[Nicholas Ostler]

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 Òvillage
Schools ProjectÓ in Northern Namibia
Annatjie Louw	Is language shift to English imminent  amongst young
Afrikaans-speakers in Rehoboth Gebiet?
Helene E. Hagan	Funding an Òethnic diversityÓ Public Access
Television Program in the USA
JosŽ 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 berbre ˆ travers la
dŽformation et la transformation du nom propre berbre
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 ÒFoundation for Endangered
LanguagesÓ.
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societyÕs account, ÒFoundation for Endangered LanguagesÓ, Account no:
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Stephen's Street, Bristol  BS1 1JR, England.
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                        Nicholas  Ostler
              Foundation for Endangered Languages
		UK Registered Charity 1070616
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