25.2316, Books: Small-Language Fates and Prospects: Dorian

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Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 11:29:59
From: Stephanie Paalvast [paalvast at brill.com]
Subject: Small-Language Fates and Prospects: Dorian

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Title: Small-Language Fates and Prospects 
Subtitle: Lessons of Persistence and Change from Endangered Languages: Collected
Essays

Series Title: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture  

Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com

Book URL: http://www.brill.com/products/book/small-language-fates-and-prospects 

Author: Nancy Dorian

Hardback: ISBN:  9789004230514 Pages: 490 Price: Europe EURO 125
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004230514 Pages: 490 Price: U.S. $ 162

Abstract:

In "Small-language Fates and Prospects" Nancy C. Dorian gathers findings from
decades of documenting an endangered Scottish Gaelic dialect, presenting
detailed evidence of contraction and loss but also recording a positive role
for imperfect speakers. Retention of language skills undervalued by linguists
but positively viewed by the community has supported the survival of local
Gaelic-English bilingualism well beyond early predictions. Nonetheless, potent
factors that threaten small-language survival everywhere have also operated
here. Negative social attitudes towards the minority population, loss of a
traditional occupation, the increasing impact of majority-culture ideologies,
are recurrent phenomena in small-language settings. Maintenance or
revitalization efforts pose special challenges under these circumstances, as
does fieldwork itself when adverse sociohistorical forces have left very few
fluent speakers.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Gaelic, Scottish (gla)

Written In: English  (eng)

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