Lessons from documented endangered languages
K. David Harrison
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Lessons from documented endangered languages
by K. David Harrison, David S. Rood, Arienne M. Dwyer
Published
2008
Publisher
Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Pages
375
ISBN-13
9789027290205
Description
"This volume represents part of an unprecedented and still growing effort to advance, coordinate and disseminate the scientific-documentation of endangered languages. As the pace of language extinction increases, linguists and native communities are accelerating their efforts to speak, remember, record, analyze and archive as much as possible of our common human heritage that is linguistic diversity. The window of opportunity for documentation is narrower than the actual lifetime of a language, and is now rapidly closing for many languages represented in this volume. The authors of these papers unveil newly collected data from previously poorly known and endangered languages. They organize highly complex linguistic facts - paradigms, affixes, vowel patterns - while pointing out the theoretically challenging aspects of these. Beyond this, they reflect on the social and human dimensions, discussing particular problems of nostalgia and modernity, memory and forgetting, and obsolescence and ethics, while viewing language as not merely data on a page but as a living creation in the minds and mouths of its speakers."-- cover.
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, what do you see?
The wayfinders
Gone Wild
Tigers at Twilight
Dying words
Endangered Languages, Knowledge Systems and Belief Systems
Frequently Asked Questions
How many pages are in Lessons from documented endangered languages?
This edition of Lessons from documented endangered languages has approximately 375 pages. Please note, this is an estimate and the exact page count can vary between hardcover, paperback, and e-book versions.
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For most readers, Lessons from documented endangered languages typically takes between 7h 49m and 5h 13m to complete. This is based on the book's length of approximately 93,750 words and common reading speeds.
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The estimated word count for Lessons from documented endangered languages is approximately 93,750 words. This figure is calculated using industry-standard methods that consider genre-specific word density patterns, typical formatting and layout characteristics, and standard words-per-page ratios for published books.
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Who is the author of Lessons from documented endangered languages?
Lessons from documented endangered languages was written by K. David Harrison, David S. Rood, Arienne M. Dwyer.
When was Lessons from documented endangered languages published?
The publication date for this specific edition is 2008. The original work may have been published on a different date.