[Linganth] Maintaining the Links: Language Identity and the Land (FEL VII)

[Nicholas Ostler]

The proceedings of the Foundation for Endangered Languages' seventh conference,
in Broome, Western Australia, are now available:

"Maintaining the Links: Language Identity and the Land"
ed. Joe Blythe and R McKenna Brown
(ISBN 0-9538248-5-3)

It is an 166-page volume, and the contents look like this:

Map of Languages
Preface:
Joe Blythe and McKenna Brown: Maintaining the Links: Language, 
Identity and the Land
Languages and Land Claims:
Nigel Crawhall: Rediscovery of N'u and the "Khomani Land Claim 
Process, South Africa
Janet Sharp:  Karajarri, Historical and Contemporary Connections with 
Country and Kin.
Toponymy:
Thomas Thornton: Tlingit Place Names and the Language of Subsistence 
in Southeast Alaska
David Nash: Authenticity in Toponymy
Frances Kofod: My Relations, My Country - Language, Identity and Land 
in the East Kimberley of Western Australia
Planning for the Future:
Patrick McConvell & Nicholas Thieberger: Language data assessment at 
the national level:  Learning from the State of the Environment 
process in Australia.
Mary Jane Norris: From Generation to Generation:  Survival and 
Maintenance of Canada's Aboriginal Languages, Within Families, 
Communities and Cities
Language, Identity and the Environment:
Joe Blythe & Glenn Wightman: The Role of Animals and Plants in 
Maintaining the Links:  East Kimberley, Western Australia
N. Louanna Furbee: The Landscape of Language:  Tojolab'al Maya 
Ethnicity and Globalization
Jepkorir Chepyator-Thomson & Norman Thomson : Ecotourism in Kerio 
Valley, Kenya:  Creating a Need for Maintaining Keiyo Language, 
Identity, and the Land
Language & Identity:  Home and Away:
Katherine E. Hoffman:  Divided Youth:  Language, Longing, and Labor 
in the Anti-Atlas Homeland, Morocco
David Newry & Keeley Palmer: "Whose language is it anyway? Rights to 
restrict access to endangered languages:  a north-east Kimberley 
example'
Language Revitalization:  Revival:
Mary Chanda: Reviving an Endangered Language "The case of the Mirning Language"
Michael Walsh: Raising Babel:  language revitalisation in New South 
Wales, Australia.
Language Revitalization:  Maintenance:
Ilana Mushin: The politics of language revitalisation:  balancing 
Yanyuwa and Garrwa in the Borroloola language project.
Rebecca Green: Gurr-goni, a Minority Language in a Multilingual 
Community:  Surviving into the 21st Century.
Documenting Endangered Languages:
Claire Bowern: Laves' Bardi Texts
Linda Barwick and Allan Marett: Endangered songs and endangered languages
Dafydd Gibbon:  Language Documentation and Heritage:  publication 
avenue for language documentation.
Monica Ward :  Language Documentation and Revitalisation - is there 
really a conflict?
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 and Light members receive a copy automatically.)

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                        Nicholas  Ostler
              Foundation for Endangered Languages
		UK Registered Charity 1070616
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        http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Philosophy/CTLL/FEL/

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