On The Death And Life Of Language

Author : Claude Hagège
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780300137330

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On the Death and Life of Languages by Claude Hagège Pdf

Twenty-five languages die each year; at this pace, half the world’s five thousand languages will disappear within the next century. In this timely book, Claude Hagège seeks to make clear the magnitude of the cultural loss represented by the crisis of language death. By focusing on the relationship of language to culture and the world of ideas, Hagège shows how languages are themselves crucial repositories of culture; the traditions, proverbs, and knowledge of our ancestors reside in the language we use. His wide-ranging examination covers all continents and language families to uncover not only how languages die, but also how they can be revitalized—for example in the remarkable case of Hebrew. In a striking metaphor, Hagège likens languages to bonfires of social behavior that leave behind sparks even after they die; from these sparks languages can be rekindled and made to live again.

Author : William Labov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107033344

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The Language of Life and Death by William Labov Pdf

Labov extends his widely used framework for narrative analysis to matters of greatest human concern: accounts of the danger of death, violence, premonitions, and large-scale community conflicts. This book provides a rich range of narratives that grip the reader's attention together with an analysis of how it is done.

Author : Don Kulick
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781616209476

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A Death in the Rainforest by Don Kulick Pdf

“Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.” —The Wall Street Journal “If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excellent choice.” —The Washington Post One of Time’s 32 Books You Need to Read This Summer * One of National Geographic’s Best Travel Books of Summer As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He arrived knowing that you can’t study a language without understanding the daily lives of the people who speak it: how they talk to their children, how they argue, how they gossip, how they joke. Over the course of thirty years, as he returned again and again to document the vanishing language, he found himself inexorably drawn into the lives and world of the Gapuners, and implicated in their destiny. In A Death in the Rainforest, Kulick takes us inside the village as he came to know it, revealing what it is like to live in a difficult-to-get-to village of two hundred people, carved out like a cleft in the middle of a tropical rainforest. And in doing so, he also gives us a brilliant interrogation of what it means to study a culture, an illuminating look at the impact of Western culture on the farthest reaches of the globe—and, ultimately, the story of why this anthropologist realized that he had to give up his study of this language and this village.

Author : Nancy C. Dorian
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781512815580

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Language Death by Nancy C. Dorian Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107431812

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Language Death by David Crystal Pdf

A thorough review of the worldwide problem of language endangerment and death.

Author : Dan Egan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393246445

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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan Pdf

New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.

Author : Matthias Brenzinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110870602

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Language Death by Matthias Brenzinger Pdf

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Author : Evelyn Fox Keller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317857204

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Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death by Evelyn Fox Keller Pdf

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : City planning
ISBN : OCLC:244302808

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs Pdf

Author : Robin Conley,Robin Conley Riner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199334162

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Confronting the Death Penalty by Robin Conley,Robin Conley Riner Pdf

"Confronting the Death Penalty probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods, Robin Conley explores the means through which language helps to make death penalty decisions possible - how specific linguistic choices mediate and restrict jurors', attorneys', and judges' actions and experiences while serving and reflecting on capital trials."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Bronnie Ware
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781401956004

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Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware Pdf

Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.

Author : William Brennan
Publisher : Sapientia Press Ave Maria Univ
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1932589449

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John Paul II by William Brennan Pdf

This book reveals how through a discourse of truth-telling--calling things by their proper name--Pope John Paul II effectively exposed the corruption of language and thought fueling a death culture that is becoming increasingly embedded in medicine, human experimentation, commerce, law, and ideology. This is an indispensable guide to Pope John Paul's profound and practical insights, meditations, principles, and actions to protect society's most defenseless individuals.

Author : Herman Batibo
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853598089

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Language Decline and Death in Africa by Herman Batibo Pdf

The aim of this book is to inform both scholars and the public about the nature and extent of the problem of language decline and death in Africa. It resourcefully traces the main causes and circumstances of language endangerment, the processes and extent of language shift and death, and the consequences of language loss to the continent's rich linguistic and cultural heritage. The book outlines some of the challenges that have emerged out of the situation.

Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Death
ISBN : 0816649235

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Language and Death by Giorgio Agamben Pdf

Explores the symbiosis of philosophy and literature in understanding negativity.

Author : Aubrey Thamann,Kalliopi M Christodoulaki
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805394358

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Beyond the Veil by Aubrey Thamann,Kalliopi M Christodoulaki Pdf

Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, this collection explores the emotional aspects that death provokes in humans, whether it is disgust, fear, awe, sadness, anger, or even joy. Whereas most studies of death and dying treat the subject from an objective viewpoint, the scholars in this collection recognize their inherent connection with death which allows for a new and more personal form of study. More broadly, this collection suggests a new paradigm in the study of death and dying.