12.2581, Books: Language Description
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Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 20:00:58 +0100
From: Nicholas Ostler <nostler at chibcha.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Language Description: Endangered Languages and the Media
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Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 20:00:58 +0100
From: Nicholas Ostler <nostler at chibcha.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Language Description: Endangered Languages and the Media
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
JosZ^ 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 berbre ^ travers la dZ^formation
et la transformation du nom propre berbre
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.
- a check (in US $) payable to ÒNicholas OstlerÓ.
- proof of having sent an equivalent sum in your own currency to the
societyÕs account, ÒFoundation for Endangered LanguagesÓ, Account no:
50073456, The Cooperative Bank (Sort code: 08-90-02), 16 St.
Stephen's Street, Bristol BS1 1JR, England.
- or by credit card (Visa, MasterCard, EuroCard), enclosing Card
number, Expiry date (month | year), Name (as on card), and Address
(as on card).
To expedite delivery, please send orders to the below address.
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Nicholas Ostler
Foundation for Endangered Languages
UK Registered Charity 1070616
http://www.ogmios.org
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Philosophy/CTLL/FEL/
Batheaston Villa, 172 Bailbrook Lane
Bath BA1 7AA England
+44-1225-85-2865 fax +44-1225-85-9258
nostler at chibcha.demon.co.uk
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