New perspectives on endangered languages : bridging gaps between sociolinguistics, documentation and language revitalization /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2010]
©2010
Description:1 online resource (156 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Culture and language use, 1879-5838 ; v. 1
Culture and language use ; v. 1.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11244160
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Varying Form of Title:Bridging gaps between sociolinguistics, documentation and language revitalization
Other authors / contributors:Flores Farfán, José Antonio, editor.
Ramallo, Fernando F., editor.
ISBN:9789027287731
9027287732
9781282897359
1282897357
9789027202819
9027202818
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Summary:Understanding sociolinguistics as a theoretical and methodological framework hopefully could attempt to promote change and social development in human communities. Yet it still presents important political, epistemological, methodological and theoretical challenges. A sociolinguistics of development, in which the revitalization of linguistic communities is the priority, opens new perspectives for the emerging field of linguistic documentation, in which the societal aspects of research, stressed by sociolinguistics, have frequently been marginal. The need to focus on the documentation of lingui.
Other form:Print version: New perspectives on endangered languages. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010 9789027202819
Standard no.:9786612897351