This volume grew out of the 36th International LAUD Symposium, which was held in March 2014 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. There is general consensus among language experts that slightly more than half of today’s 7,000 languages are under severe threat of extinction even within fifty to one hundred years. The 13 papers contained in this volume explore the dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why this matters, and what can be done and achieved to document and support endangered languages especially in the context of an ever increasing globalized world. The issue of vanishing languages is discussed from a variety of methodologies and perspectives: sociolinguistics, language ecology, language contact, language policy/planning, attitudes and linguistic inequalities.
| ISBN: | 9783631670491 |
| Publication date: | 6th June 2016 |
| Author: | Martin Pütz |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang AG |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Series: | DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture |
| Genres: |
Sociolinguistics Literary studies: general Regional / International studies Cultural studies |
This volume grew out of the 36th International LAUD Symposium, which was held in March 2014 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. There is general consensus among language experts that slightly more than half of today’s 7,000 languages are under severe threat of extinction even within fifty to one hundred years. The 13 papers contained in this volume explore the dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why this matters, and what can be done and achieved to document and support endangered languages especially in the context of an ever increasing globalized world. The issue of vanishing languages is discussed from a variety of methodologies and perspectives: sociolinguistics, language ecology, language contact, language policy/planning, attitudes and linguistic inequalities.
Vanishing Languages in Context features in the following genres: Sociolinguistics, Literary studies: general, Regional / International studies, Cultural studies
Vanishing Languages in Context is available in Hardback
Vanishing Languages in Context was written by Martin Pütz and published by Peter Lang AG
Vanishing Languages in Context has 320 pages