Endangered Languages / The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
A concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times.
58% of the world's languagesor, approximately 4,000 languagesare endangered. When we break this figure down, we realize that...
58% of the world's languagesor, approximately 4,000 languagesare endangered. When we break this figure down, we realize that...
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A concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times.
58% of the world's languagesor, approximately 4,000 languagesare endangered. When we break this figure down, we realize that roughly ten percent of languages have fewer than ten language keepers. And, if one language stops being used every three months, this means that in the next 100 years, if we do nothing, 400 more languages will become dormant. In Endangered Languages, Evangelia Adamou, a specialist of endangered languages and a learner of her own community language, Nashta, offers a sobering look at language endangerment and what is truly lost when a language disappears from usage.
Combining recent advances from the Western scientific traditionfrom the fields of linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language attrition, population genetics, and natural language processingand insights from Indigenous epistemology, theory, and ethics, Adamou examines a wealth of issues surrounding endangered languages. She discusses where endangered languages are found, including how they are faring in a digital world, why these languages are no longer used, and how communities can reclaim languages and keep them strong. Adamou also explains the impact of language continuity on community and individual health and well-being, the importance of language transmission in cultural transmission, and why language rights are essentially human rights.
Drawing on varied examples from the Wampanoag Nation to Wales, Endangered Languages offers a powerful reminder of the crucial role every language has in the vitality and well-being of individuals, communities, and our world.
58% of the world's languagesor, approximately 4,000 languagesare endangered. When we break this figure down, we realize that roughly ten percent of languages have fewer than ten language keepers. And, if one language stops being used every three months, this means that in the next 100 years, if we do nothing, 400 more languages will become dormant. In Endangered Languages, Evangelia Adamou, a specialist of endangered languages and a learner of her own community language, Nashta, offers a sobering look at language endangerment and what is truly lost when a language disappears from usage.
Combining recent advances from the Western scientific traditionfrom the fields of linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language attrition, population genetics, and natural language processingand insights from Indigenous epistemology, theory, and ethics, Adamou examines a wealth of issues surrounding endangered languages. She discusses where endangered languages are found, including how they are faring in a digital world, why these languages are no longer used, and how communities can reclaim languages and keep them strong. Adamou also explains the impact of language continuity on community and individual health and well-being, the importance of language transmission in cultural transmission, and why language rights are essentially human rights.
Drawing on varied examples from the Wampanoag Nation to Wales, Endangered Languages offers a powerful reminder of the crucial role every language has in the vitality and well-being of individuals, communities, and our world.
Autoren-Porträt von Evangelia Adamou
Evangelia Adamou is Senior Researcher at the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) and a member of the Academy of Europe. She is the author of The Adaptive Bilingual Mind, A Corpus-Driven Approach to Language Contact, and other books.
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- Autor: Evangelia Adamou
- 2024, 264 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: MIT Press
- ISBN-10: 0262379198
- ISBN-13: 9780262379199
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.08.2024
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