Can threatened languages be saved? : reversing language shift, revisited : a 21st century perspective /: reversing language shift, revisited : a 21st century perspective. (2001)
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- Book
- Title:
- Can threatened languages be saved? : reversing language shift, revisited : a 21st century perspective /: reversing language shift, revisited : a 21st century perspective. (2001)
- Main Title:
- Can threatened languages be saved? : reversing language shift, revisited : a 21st century perspective
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Joshua A. Fishman.
- Other Names:
- Fishman, Joshua A
- Contents:
- Why is it so hard to save a threatened language? / J.A. Fishman -- Reversing Navajo language shift, revisited / T. Lee and D. McLaughlin -- How threatened is the Spanish of New York Puerto Ricans? / O. García, J.L. Morín and K. Rivera -- A decade in the life of a two-in-one language / J.A. Fishman -- Reversing language shift in Quebec / R.Y. Bourhis -- Otomí language shift and some recent efforts to reverse it / Y. Lastra -- Reversing Quechua language shift in South America / N.H. Hornberger and K.A. King -- Irish language production and reproduction 1981-1996 / P.Ó. Riagáin -- A Frisian update of reversing language shift / D. Gorter -- Reversing language shift : the case of Basque / M.-J. Azurmendi, E. Bachoc and F. Zabaleta -- Catalan a decade later / M. Strubell -- Saving threatened languages in Africa : a case study of Oko / E. Adegbija -- Andamanese : biological challenge for language reversal / E. Annamalai and V. Gnanasundaram -- Akor itak -- our language, your language : Ainu in Japan / J.C. Maher -- Hebrew after a century of RLS efforts / B. Spolsky and E. Shohamy -- Can the shift from immigrant languages be reversed in Australia? / M. Clyne -- Is the extinction of Australia's indigenous languages inevitable? / J. Lo Bianco and M. Rhydwen -- RLS in Aotearoa/New Zealand 1989-1999 / R. Benton and N. Benton -- From theory to practice (and vice versa) / J.A. Fishman.
- Publisher Details:
- Clevedon [England] Buffalo : Multilingual Matters
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 503 pages), illustrations
- Subjects:
- 306.4/4
Language attrition
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics
Language attrition
Taalverschuiving
Uitstervende talen
Taalpolitiek
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 1853597066
9781853597060 - Related ISBNs:
- 1853594938
9781853594939
185359492X
9781853594922 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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