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Sustaining linguistic diversity endangered and minority languages and language varieties
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- ISBN: 1589011929 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781589011922 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781461913740 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1461913748 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (viii, 238 p.) : ill. - Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2008.
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| General Note: | Multi-User. CatMonthString:jan.13 CatBulkString:jan.03.13 |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Linguistic diversity, sustainability, and the future of the past / Suzanne Romaine -- When is an "extinct language" not extinct? : Miami, a formerly sleeping language / Wesley Y. Leonard -- Evaluating endangerment : proposed metadata and implementation / M. Paul Lewis -- Endangered language varieties : vernacular speech and linguistic standardization in Brazilian Portuguese / Gregory R. Guy and Ana M.S. Zilles -- The linguistic negotiation of complex racialized identities by Black Appalachian speakers / Christine Mallinson -- Working at "9 to 5" Gaelic : speakers, context, and ideologies of an emerging minority language register / Emily McEwan-Fujita -- Voice and biliteracy in indigenous language revitalization : contentious educational practices in Quechua, Guarani, and Maori contexts / Nancy H. Hornberger -- Endangering language vitality through institutional development : ideology, authority, and official standard Irish in the Gaeltacht / Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin -- Scandinavian minority language policies in transition : the impact of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Norway and Sweden / Leena Huss -- Language development in Eritrea : the case of Blin / Paul D. Fallon -- Indigenous language policies in social practice : the case of Navajo / Teresa L. McCarty, Mary Eunice Romero-Little, and Ofelia Zepeda -- Heritage language education in the United States : a need to reconceptualize and restructure / Joy Kreeft Peyton ... [et al.] -- Language diversity and the public interest / Walt Wolfram -- At what cost? : methods of language revival and protection : examples from Hebrew / Elana Shohamy -- Unendangered dialects, endangered people / William Labov. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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