Language Endangerment And Obsolescence In East Asia

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004523944

Get Book

Language Endangerment and Obsolescence in East Asia by Anonim Pdf

What shapes and magnitude can language loss have in East Asian endangered languages? How does it differ with regards to the languages' historical development and sociolinguistic environment? This book surveys a number of minority and, in most cases, endangered languages spoken in China, Japan, Taiwan, and Russia which all face, or have faced in their recent history, loss of language features. The contributions in this publication present you with different cases of obsolescence attested throughout East Asia and highlight how this process, though often leading back to common causes, is in fact a multifaceted reality with diverse repercussions on grammar and linguistic vitality.

Author : Edward Vajda
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110556216

Get Book

The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia by Edward Vajda Pdf

The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: A Comprehensive Guide surveys the indigenous languages of Asia’s North Pacific Rim, Siberia, and adjacent portions of Inner Eurasia. It provides in-depth descriptions of every first-order family of this vast area, with special emphasis on family-internal subdivision and dialectal differentiation. Individual chapters trace the origins and expansion of the region’s widespread pastoral-based language groups as well as the microfamilies and isolates spoken by northern Asia’s surviving hunter-gatherers. Separate chapters cover sparsely recorded languages of early Inner Eurasia that defy precise classification and the various pidgins and creoles spread over the region. Other chapters investigate the typology of salient linguistic features of the area, including vowel harmony, noun inflection, verb indexing (also known as agreement), complex morphologies, and the syntax of complex predicates. Issues relating to genealogical ancestry, areal contact and language endangerment receive equal attention. With historical connections both to Eurasia’s pastoral-based empires as well as to ancient population movements into the Americas, the steppes, taiga forests, tundra and coastal fringes of northern Asia offer a complex and fascinating object of linguistic investigation.

Author : T. E. McAuley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136844614

Get Book

Language Change in East Asia by T. E. McAuley Pdf

This book adopts a wide focus on the range of East Asian languages, in both their pre-modern and modern forms, within the specific topic area of language change. It contains sections on dialect studies, contact linguistics, socio-linguistics and syntax/phonology and deals with all three major languages of East Asia: Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Individual chapters cover pre-Sino-Japanese phonology, nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean; Japanese loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin; changes in Korean honorifics; the tense and aspect system of Japanese; and language policy in Japan. The book will be of interest to linguists working on East Asian languages, and will be of value to a range of general linguists working in comparative or historical linguistics, socio-linguistics, language typology and language contact.

Author : Mark Janse,Sijmen Tol
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027247520

Get Book

Language Death and Language Maintenance by Mark Janse,Sijmen Tol Pdf

Languages are dying at an alarming rate all over the world. Estimates range from 50% to as much as 90% by the end of the century. This collection of original papers tries to strike a balance between theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches to language death and language maintenance. It provides overviews of language endangerment in Africa, Eurasia, and the Greater Pacific Area. It also presents case studies of endangered languages from various language families. These descriptive case studies not only provide data on the degree of endangerment and the causes of language death, but also provide a general sociolinguistic and typological characterization the language(s) under discussion and the prospects of language maintenance (if any). The volume will be of interest to all those concerned with the ongoing extinction of the world's linguistic diversity.

Author : K. Alexander Adelaar,Nikolaus Himmelmann
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780700712861

Get Book

The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar by K. Alexander Adelaar,Nikolaus Himmelmann Pdf

An essential source of reference for this linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax.

Author : Paul Sidwell,Mathias Jenny
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110558142

Get Book

The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia by Paul Sidwell,Mathias Jenny Pdf

The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.

Author : Dick Smakman,Patrick Heinrich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317451013

Get Book

Globalising Sociolinguistics by Dick Smakman,Patrick Heinrich Pdf

This book challenges the predominance of mainstream sociolinguistic theories by focusing on lesser known sociolinguistic systems, from regions of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, South America, the European Mediterranean, and Slavic regions as well as specific speech communities such as those speaking Nivkh, Jamaican Creole, North Saami, and Central Yup’ik. In nineteen chapters, the specialist authors look at key sociolinguistic aspects of each region or speech community, such as gender, politeness strategies, speech patterns and the effects of social hierarchy on language, concentrating on the differences from mainstream models. The volume, introduced by Miriam Meyerhoff, has been written by the leading expert of each specific region or community and includes contributions by Rajend Mesthrie, Marc Greenberg and Daming Xu. This publication draws together connections across regions/communities and considers how mainstream sociolinguistics is incomplete or lacking. It reveals how lesser-known cultures can play an important role in the building of theory in sociolinguistics. Globalising Sociolinguistics is essential reading for any researcher in sociolinguistics and language variation and will be a key reference for advanced sociolinguistics courses.

Author : Patricia Herbert,Anthony Crothers Milner
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0824812670

Get Book

South-East Asia by Patricia Herbert,Anthony Crothers Milner Pdf

Author : David Bradley,Maya Bradley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107041134

Get Book

Language Endangerment by David Bradley,Maya Bradley Pdf

Investigates the endangerment of languages and the loss of traditional cultural diversity, and how to respond.

Author : Tasaku Tsunoda
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311018429X

Get Book

Language Endangerment and Language Revitalization by Tasaku Tsunoda Pdf

In almost every part of the world, minority languages are being threatened with extinction. At the same time, dedicated efforts are being made to document endangered languages, to maintain them, and even to revive once-extinct languages. The book presents a comprehensive overview of language endangerment and revitalization. Among the examined aspects are: degrees of endangerment, definitions of language death, causes of endangerment, types of speakers in endangerment situations, methods of documentation. The book is of interest to a wide readership, including linguists, anthropologists, sociologists, and educators.

Author : Lida Cope
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317978053

Get Book

Applied Linguists Needed by Lida Cope Pdf

It is a fact that the world’s languages are dying at an alarming rate. This comprehensive volume aspires to raise awareness among applied linguists and language practitioners about the needs and concerns of endangered language communities. It suggests that the way forward lies in building language revitalization teams reflecting the levels of expertise that the fields of formal linguistics and applied linguistics have to offer – in how well researchers and practitioners exploit a tremendous networking potential across disciplines to address the needs of revitalization, stabilization, or maintenance in these communities. A wide range of expert contributors addresses the following themes: (1) how varied language teaching contexts dictate what applied linguists bring to the table; (2) how training in applied linguists can empower members of the speaking community; (3) why we should critically examine the issues and terminology used to describe endangered language contexts; and (4) how linguistic skills can be adapted and integrated, conceptually and pedagogically, into non-traditional teaching contexts. The strength of this collection lies in bringing together expert applied and field linguists whose work represents extensive field experiences, theoretical expertise, and passionate resolve to act. This book was originally published as a special issue of Language and Education.

Author : Wah Kam Ho,Ruth Wong
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish Academic
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015052864629

Get Book

Language Policies and Language Education by Wah Kam Ho,Ruth Wong Pdf

This book provides a comparative study of policy and education processes related to language in 15 Asian countries. Each report reviews the development of the national system's language policy and education, emphasising the critical role of language in its development. At the same time, it gives due regard to cultural heritage and to how the dominant language has served people's needs. Also covered are the role of foreign languages in each country and the spread and status of English as a second or foreign language.

Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199273119

Get Book

The Languages of East and Southeast Asia by Cliff Goddard Pdf

"This book introduces the linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. It contains treatments of diverse areas including: word origins, cultural key words, tones and sounds, language families and typology, key syntactic structures, writing systems and communicative style" --Provided by publisher.

Author : Osahito Miyaoka,Osamu Sakiyama,Michael E. Krauss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199266623

Get Book

The Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim by Osahito Miyaoka,Osamu Sakiyama,Michael E. Krauss Pdf

Publisher description

Author : Chao Yuen Ren,Richard B. Noss,Joseph. K. Yamagiwa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110814637

Get Book

Linguistics in East Asia and South East Asia by Chao Yuen Ren,Richard B. Noss,Joseph. K. Yamagiwa Pdf

To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.