Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages 1st Edition by K David Harrison, David S Rood, Arienne M Dwyer ISBN 9027290202 9789027290205

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ISBN 10: 9027290202 
ISBN 13: 9789027290205
Author: K David Harrison, David S Rood, Arienne M Dwyer

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.

Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives

1. Endangered Languages and Language Documentation: Defining the Field

2. The Role of Language Documentation in Language Revitalization

3. Ethical Considerations in Documenting Endangered Languages

4. Fieldwork Methodologies for Endangered Language Documentation

Part II: Case Studies in Documentation and Revitalization
5. Documenting the Warlpiri Language: Challenges and Innovations
6. Language Maintenance in the Yupik Communities
7. Revitalizing the Ainu Language: Community and Linguistic Perspectives
8. The Documentation of the Manx Language: Successes and Lessons

Part III: Technology and Tools in Language Documentation
9. Digital Tools and Archiving for Endangered Languages
10. Using Multimedia to Enhance Language Learning and Documentation
11. Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition for Low-Resource Languages

Part IV: Future Directions and Challenges
12. Sustainability of Documentation Projects
13. Community Involvement and Capacity Building
14. Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Language Endangerment

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