[Lingtyp] Language Death

Thu Oct 28 18:58:14 UTC 2021

Here are some more articles, particularly focusing on ones which centre
endangered languages and their users/owners

Cámara-Leret, Rodrigo.; and Jordi Bascompte. 2021. Language extinction
triggers the loss of unique medicinal knowledge. *Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences* 118. National Acad Sciences. doi:10/gkgvr9
<https://doi.org/10/gkgvr9>.
Davis, Jenny L. Resisting rhetorics of language endangerment: Reclamation
through Indigenous language survivance. *Language Documentation and
Description *24.
Hill, Jane H. 2002. “Expert Rhetorics” in Advocacy for Endangered
Languages: Who Is Listening, and What Do They Hear? *Journal of Linguistic
Anthropology* 12.119–133.
Henne–Ochoa, Richard.; Emma Elliott–Groves.; Barbra A. Meek.; and Barbara
Rogoff. 2020. Pathways Forward for Indigenous Language Reclamation:
Engaging Indigenous Epistemology and Learning by Observing and Pitching in
to Family and Community Endeavors. *The Modern Language Journal*
104.481–493. doi:10/gm8xb2 <https://doi.org/10/gm8xb2>.
Kik, Alfred.; Martin Adamec.; Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald.; Jarmila Bajzekova.;
Nigel Baro.; Claire Bowern.; Robert K. Colwell.; Pavel Drozd.; Pavel Duda.;
and Sentiko Ibalim. 2021. Language and ethnobiological skills decline
precipitously in Papua New Guinea, the world’s most linguistically diverse
nation. *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences* 118. National
Acad Sciences. doi:10/gj739z <https://doi.org/10/gj739z>.
Leonard, W. Y.; and E. Haynes. 2010. Making “collaboration” collaborative:
An examination of perspectives that frame linguistic field research. *Language
Documentation & Conservation* 4.269–293
Meek, Barbra A. 2007a. Respecting the Language of Elders: Ideological Shift
and Linguistic Discontinuity in a Northern Athapascan Community. *Journal
of Linguistic Anthropology* 17.23–43. doi:10/dk6qt7
<https://doi.org/10/dk6qt7>.
Meek, Barbra A. 2007b. Framing Indigenous Languages as Secondary to Matrix
Languages. *Anthropology & Education Quarterly* 38.99–118. doi:10/fckwz3
<https://doi.org/10/fckwz3>.
Meek, Barbra A. 2012. *We Are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language
Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community*. University of Arizona
Press.
Meek, Barbra A. 2019. Language Endangerment in Childhood. *Annual Review of
Anthropology* 48.95–115. doi:10/ggdc82 <https://doi.org/10/ggdc82>.
Meek, Barbra Allyn. Kaska language socialization, acquisition and shift.
United States -- Arizona: The University of Arizona ph.d.
https://www.proquest.com/docview/252126711/abstract/461F99C7944B4B59PQ/1.
Meissner, Shelbi Nahwilet. 2018. The moral fabric of linguicide: un-weaving
trauma narratives and dependency relationships in Indigenous language
reclamation. *Journal of Global Ethics* 14. Routledge.266–276. doi:10/gm256m
<https://doi.org/10/gm256m>.
Perley, Bernard. 2011. Defying Maliseet Language Death. *University of
Nebraska Press -- Sample Books and Chapters*.
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/unpresssamples/79.
Perley, Bernard C. 2012. Zombie Linguistics: Experts, Endangered Languages
and the Curse of Undead Voices. *Anthropological Forum* 22.133–149. doi:
10.1080/00664677.2012.694170 <https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2012.694170>.
Turner, Margaret Kemarre.; and Barry Matthew John McDonald. 2010. *Iwenhe
Tyerrtye: What it means to be an Aboriginal person*. Alice Springs: IAD
Press.

On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 2:43 PM Peter Austin <pa2 at soas.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear colleagues
>
> At the risk of being seen to be at least partially blowing my own trumpet,
> can I suggest the following additions to Prof Simone's list of sources on
> "Language Death" or "Language Endangerment" as standard and reference works
> (some of which date from post-2004)?
>
> Abley, Mark. 2005. Spoken Here: Travel Among Threatened Languages. London:
> Arrow Books.
>
> Austin, Peter K. 2007. Survival of Languages. In Emily F. Shuckburgh (ed.)
> Survival: Darwin College Lectures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
>
> Austin, Peter K. (ed.) 2008. 1000 Languages: The Worldwide History of
> Living and Lost Tongues. London: Thames and Hudson & Berkeley: University
> of California Press.
>
> Austin, Peter K. & Stuart McGill. 2010. Essential readings in endangered
> languages. London: Routledge.
>
> Austin, Peter K. & Julia Sallabank. (eds.) 2010. Cambridge Handbook of
> Endangered Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
>
> Crystal, David. 2000. Language Death. Cambridge: Cambridge University
> Press.
>
> Evans, Nicholas. 2001. "The Last Speaker is Dead – Long Live the Last
> Speaker!". In Paul Newman & Martha Ratliff (eds.) Linguistic Field Work,
> 250-281. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
>
> Fishman, Joshua. 1991. Reversing Language Shift. Clevendon: Multilingual
> Matters.
>
> Fishman, Joshua. 2001. Can Threatened Languages be Saved? Reversing
> Language Shift, Revisited: A 21st Century Perspective. Clevedon:
> Multilingual Matters.
>
> Hale, Kenneth; Krauss, Michael; Watahomigie, Lucille J.; Yamamoto, Akira
> Y.; Craig, Colette; Jeanne, LaVerne M. et al. 1992. Endangered Languages.
> Language, 68 (1), 1–42.
>
> Harrison, K. David. 2007. When Languages Die: The Extinction of the
> World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge. New York and London:
> Oxford University Press
>
> Nettle, Daniel and Romaine, Suzanne. 2000. Vanishing Voices: The
> Extinction of the World's Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
>
> Thomason, Sarah G. 2015. Endangered Languages: An Introduction. Cambridge:
> Cambridge University Press.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 at 16:54, Nigel Vincent <
> nigel.vincent at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Since Raffaele's excellent bibliography includes one item in Italian, let
>> me add an item of my own, in English but about another contribution to the
>> topic written in Italian by an Italian linguist sadly not much read or
>> cited these days.
>> Nigel
>>
>>
>> Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA MAE
>> Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics
>> The University of Manchester
>>
>> Linguistics & English Language
>> School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
>> The University of Manchester
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/nigel-vincent(f973a991-8ece-453e-abc5-3ca198c869dc).html
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of
>> Raffaele Simone <rsimone at os.uniroma3.it>
>> *Sent:* 28 October 2021 3:50 PM
>> *To:* lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org <
>> lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Lingtyp] Language Death
>>
>>
>> Dear Sergej,
>>
>> the following list of titles can be of use:
>>
>>
>>    - Brenzinger, M. (ed.) (1992): *Language Death. Factual and
>>    Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa*. Berlin,
>>    De Gruyter.
>>    - Campbell, L. (1994): Language Death. In R.E. Asher & J.M.Y. Simpson
>>    (eds.), *The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics*, Vol. 4,
>>    Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1960-1968.
>>    - Dal Negro, S. (2004): *The Decay of a Language. The Case of a
>>    German Dialect in the Italian Alps*. Bern, Lang.
>>    - De Bot, K. (1996): Language loss. In H. Goebl, P.H. Nelde, Z.
>>    Starý, W. Wölck (eds.), *Kontaktlinguistik. **Contact Linguistics.
>>    Linguistique de contact* (1. Halbband), Berlin, De Gruyter, 579-58,
>>    - Denison, N. (1977): Language death or language suicide?
>>    *Linguistics*, 191, 13-22.
>>    - Dorian, N.C. (1977): The problem of the semi-speaker in language
>>    death. *Linguistics*, 191, 23-32.
>>    - Dorian, N.C. (1981): *Language Death. The Life Cycle of a Scottish
>>    Gaelic Dialect*. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.
>>    - Dorian, N.C. (1999): The study of language obsolescence: stages,
>>    surprises, challenges. *Langues et Linguistique. Languages and
>>    Linguistics*, 3, 99-122.
>>    - Dorian, N.C. (ed.) (1989): *Investigating Obsolescence. Studies in
>>    Language Contraction and Death*. Cambridge, Cambridge University
>>    Press.
>>    - Dressler, W.U. (1996): Language death. In R. Singh (ed.), *Towards
>>    a Critical Sociolinguistics*, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 195-210.
>>    - Dressler, W.U. (2003): Dallo stadio di lingue minacciate allo
>>    stadio di lingue moribonde attraverso lo stadio di lingue decadenti: una
>>    catastrofe ecolinguistica considerata in una prospettiva costruttivista. In
>>    A. Valentini, P. Molinelli, P. Cuzzolin, G. Bernini (a cura di), *Ecologia
>>    linguistica*, Roma, Bulzoni, 9-25.
>>    - Dressler, W.U. & Wodak-Leodolter, R. (1977): Language preservation
>>    and language death in Brittany. *International Journal of the
>>    Sociology of Language*, 12, 33-44.
>>    - Hagège, C. (2000): *Halte à la mort des langues*. Paris, Odile
>>    Jacob.
>>    - Myers-Scotton, C. (1998): A way to dusty death: the Matrix Language
>>    turnover hypothesis. In L.A. Grenoble & L.J. Whaley (eds.), *Endangered
>>    Languages*, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 289-316.
>>    - Sasse, H.-J. (1992): Theory of language death. In Brenzinger (ed.),
>>    7-30.
>>    - Wolfram, W. (2002): Language death and dying. In J.K. Chambers, P.
>>    Trudgill, N. Schilling-Estes (eds.), *The Handbook of Language
>>    Variation and Change*, Oxford, Blackwell, 764-78.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> R Simone
>>
>> Emeritus, Roma Tre University, Rome
>>
>>
>> Il 28/10/2021 15:41, Juergen Bohnemeyer ha scritto:
>>
>> Dear Sergey — I highly recommend ch9 of Thomason 2001, which includes an excellent discussion of the earlier literature, including the work by Dorian, Sasse, and A. Schmidt. — Best — Juergen
>>
>> Thomason, S. (2001). Language contact: An introduction. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
>>
>>
>> On Oct 28, 2021, at 9:14 AM, Sergey Loesov <sergeloesov at gmail.com> <sergeloesov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> Could you please recommend some standard and reference works on the problems of "Language death"?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Sergey
>>
>>
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