The endangered languages crisis is widely acknowledged among scholars who deal with languages and indigenous peoples as one of the most pressing problems facing humanity, posing moral, practical, and scientific issues of enormous proportions. Simply put, no area of the world is immune from language endangerment.
The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages, in 39 chapters, provides a comprehensive overview of the efforts that are being undertaken to deal with this crisis. A comprehensive reference reflecting the breadth of the field, the Handbook presents in detail both the range of thinking about language endangerment and the variety of responses to it, and broadens understanding of language endangerment, language documentation, and language revitalization, encouraging further research.
The Handbook is organized into five parts. Part 1, Endangered Languages, addresses the fundamental issues that are essential to understanding the nature of the endangered languages crisis. Part 2, Language Documentation, provides an overview of the issues and activities of concern to linguists and others in their efforts to record and document endangered languages. Part 3, Language Revitalization, includes approaches, practices, and strategies for revitalizing endangered and sleeping (dormant) languages. Part 4, Endangered Languages and Biocultural Diversity, extends the discussion of language endangerment beyond its conventional boundaries to consider the interrelationship of language, culture, and environment, and the common forces that now threaten the sustainability of their diversity. Part 5, Looking to the Future, addresses a variety of topics that are certain to be of consequence in future efforts to document and revitalize endangered languages.
Author(s): Kenneth L. Rehg; Lyle Campbell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2018
Language: English
Commentary: all sections are production PDFs from Oxford Handbooks online, except index (browser print-to-PDF)
Pages: 976
Front Matter
Foreword
References
Biographical Note
Introduction: Endangered Languages - Lyle Campbell and Kenneth L. Rehg
Part I Endangered Languages
The Status of the World’s Endangered Languages - Anna Belew and Sean Simpson
Assessing Degrees of Language Endangerment - Nala H. Lee and John R. Van Way
Language Contact and Language Endangerment - Sarah G. Thomason
Indigenous Language Rights—Miner’s Canary or Mariner’s Tern? - teresa l. mccarty
Part II Language Documentation
The Goals of Language Documentation - Richard A. Rhodes and Lyle Campbell
Documentation, Linguistic Typology, and Formal Grammar - Keren Rice
The Design and Implementation of Documentation Projects for Spoken Languages - Shobhana Chelliah
Endangered Sign Languages: An Introduction - James Woodward
Design and Implementation of Collaborative Language Documentation Projects - Racquel-María Sapién
Tools and Technology for Language Documentation and Revitalization - Keren Rice and Nick Thieberger
Corpus Compilation and Exploitation in Language Documentation Projects - Ulrike Mosel
Writing Grammars of Endangered Languages - Amber B. Camp, Lyle Campbell, Victoria Chen, Nala H. Lee, Matthew Lou-Magnuson, and Samantha Rarrick
Compiling Dictionaries of Endangered Languages - Kenneth L. Rehg
Orthography Design and Implementation for Endangered Languages - Michael Cahill
Language Archiving - Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker and Ryan E. Henke
Tools from the Ethnography of Communication for Language Documentation - Simeon Floyd
Language Documentation in Diaspora Communities - Daniel Kaufman and Ross Perlin
Ethics in Language Documentation and Revitalization - Jeff Good
Part III Language Revitalization
Approaches to and Strategies for Language Revitalization - Leanne Hinton
Comparative Analysis in Language Revitalization Practices: Addressing the Challenge - Gabriela Pérez Báez, Rachel Vogel, and Eve Koller
The Linguistics of Language Revitalization: Problems of Acquisition and Attrition - William O’Grady
New Media for Endangered Languages - Laura Buszard-Welcher
Language Recovery Paradigms - Alan R. King
Myaamiaataweenki: Revitalization of a Sleeping Language - Daryl Baldwin and David J. Costa
Language Revitalization in Kindergarten: A Case Study of Truku Seediq Language Immersion - Apay Ai-yu Tang
Māori: Revitalization of an Endangered Language - Jeanette King
Language Revitalization in Africa - Bonny Sands
Planning Minority Language Maintenance: Challenges and Limitations - Sue Wright
Part IV Endangered Languages and Biocultural Diversity
Congruence Between Species and Language Diversity - David Harmon and Jonathan Loh
Sustaining Biocultural Diversity - Luisa Maffi
Traditional and Local Knowledge Systems as Language Legacies Critical for Conservation - Will C. McClatchey
Climate Change and Its Consequences for Cultural and Language Endangerment - Christopher P. Dunn
Interdisciplinary Language Documentation - Gary Holton
Why Lexical Loss and Culture Death Endanger Science - Ian Mackenzie and Wade Davis
Part V Looking to the Future
Funding the Documentation and Revitalization of Endangered Languages - Susan Penfield
Teaching Linguists to Document Endangered Languages - Carol Genetti
Training Language Activists to Support Endangered Languages - Nora C. England
Designing Mobile Applications for Endangered Languages - Steven Bird
Indigenous Language Use Impacts Wellness - Alice Taff, Melvatha Chee, Jaeci Hall, Millie Yéi Dulitseen Hall, Kawenniyóhstha Nicole Martin, and Annie Johnston
Afterword - David Crystal
Index
