When Languages Die

When Languages Die
Author: K. David Harrison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0195372069
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It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. This text focuses on the question: what is lost when a language dies?


When Languages Die
Language: en
Pages: 305

When Languages Die

Authors: K. David Harrison
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. Thi
When Languages Die : The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge
Language: en
Pages: 306

When Languages Die : The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

Authors: K. David Harrison Assistant Professor of Linguistics Swarthmore College
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-02-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The
Language Death
Language: en
Pages: 212

Language Death

Authors: David Crystal
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-04-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropologists but
A Death in the Rainforest
Language: en
Pages: 289

A Death in the Rainforest

Authors: Don Kulick
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-18 - Publisher: Algonquin Books

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“Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.” —The Wall Str
Vanishing Voices
Language: en
Pages: 256

Vanishing Voices

Authors: Daniel Nettle
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-07-27 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Few people know that nearly one hundred native languages once spoken in what is now California are near extinction, or that most of Australia's 250 aboriginal l