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Routledge - Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance

Name: Routledge - Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance
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Language Study & Reference

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Language endangerment represents a fundamental issue for humanity. This volume from Routledge addresses the pressing questions surrounding minority community rights and the unique ways each language conceptualizes the world. When a language disappears, we risk losing vital knowledge about local ecosystems and the world at large. This book explores the processes involved in language shift and investigates how insights from these processes can contribute to linguistic theory. It examines the potential loss of typological insights that occur when undescribed languages vanish before their unique structural properties are documented. Readers will find a deep investigation into how language shift can be stopped or reversed. This text serves as an active approach to understanding the impact of linguistic loss and the methods available for language maintenance and preservation.

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Explores the fundamental impact of language endangerment on humanity and the rights of minority communities.

Investigates how different languages provide unique ways to conceptualize the world and local ecosystems.

Analyzes how linguistic processes can contribute to the development of broader linguistic theory.

Examines the risk of losing unique structural properties and typological insights from undescribed languages.

Provides a study on the processes involved in language shift and potential methods to stop or reverse it.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0700714561
Category: Books > Subjects > Language Study & Reference
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 23 May 2002
Listed Since: 10 February 2007

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