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Endangered Languages of Austronesia
Edited by Margaret Florey
320 pages
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Maps, Tables, Figures
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246x171mm
978-0-19-954454-7
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Hardback
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26 November 2009
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- Describes the variety of responses by linguists to the language endangerment crisis
- Emphasizes realistic and practical solutions and interventions
- Draws together research from those actively involved in language documentation
- Includes an overview of the Austronesian language family
Austronesian is the largest language family on earth: Some 1300 languages, 20% of the world's total, are spoken by 270 million people in a region that extends from Easter Island in the Pacific 10,000 miles west to Madagascar off the coast of Africa. Many of the languages in this diverse and linguistically rich region are undocumented and in imminent danger of extinction. This book provides a critical account of current knowledge, reviews the state of the documentation of languages in the region, and considers the linguistic effects of government policies and economic change. The editor's introduction draws out the key issues and themes. An overview of the
Austronesian language family then examines the historical relations between the languages, their diversity, and their distribution in the region and describes the nature and aims of contemporary research. Individual chapters are then devoted to the revitalization of languages in Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, East Timor, and Vanuatu.
This pioneering account of one of the world's most linguistically rich regions offers direction and impetus to research in linguistics and anthropology, and holds out the means of saving many endangered languages and cultures.Readership: Scholars and linguistic fieldworkers involved in the study of Austronesian languages. linguistic anthropologists
and sociologists; all those concerned with language endangerment and extinction.
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Edited by Margaret Florey, Monash University Contributors:
Margaret Florey, Monash University
Alexander K. Adelaar, University of Melbourne
I. Wayan Arka, The Australian National University
Julie Barbour, University of Waikato
John Bowden, The Australian National University
Charles E. Grimes, The Australian National University
John Hajek, University of Melbourne
Thomas N. Headland, SIL International
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
D. Victoria Rau, Providence University
Peter Sercombe, Newcastle
University
Nick Thieberger, University of Hawai'i
Hannah Vari-Bogiri, University of the South Pacific
Meng-Chien Yang, Providence University
Catherine Young, SIL International
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"... a substantial contribution to the field of language documentation and language endangerment ... of wide interest not just to specialists in Austronesian languages, and to those concerned with language documentation and langugage endangerment worldwide. It will prove invaluable and thought-provoking to sociolinguistics across all language families." - Darrell Tryon, Studies in Language Vol. 35:2
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Part I Overview
1: Margaret Florey: Introduction
2: Alexander K. Adelaar: An Overview of Language Documentation in the Austronesian World
Part II Linguistic Vitality: Theory, Assessments, and Challenges
3: Nikolaus P. Himmelmann: Language Endangerment Scenarios: A Case Study From Northern Central Sulawesi
4: Charles E. Grimes: Digging for the Roots of Language Death in Eastern Indonesia: The Cases of Kayeli and Hukumina
5: I. Wayan Arka: Maintaining Vera in Rongga: Struggles Over Culture, Tradition, and Language in Modern Manggarai-Indonesia
6: Thomas N. Headland: Why the Philippine Negrito Languages are Endangered
part III Capacity Building and Revitalization Initiatives
7: Margaret Florey and Nikolaus Himmelmann: New Directions in Field Linguistics: Training Strategies for Language Documentation in Indonesia
8: Nick Thieberger: Anxious Respect for Linguistic Data: The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) and the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity (RNLD)
9: Hannah Vari-Bogiri: Language Work in Vanuatu
10: John Hajek and John Bowden: Waima'a: Challenges for Language Description and Maintenance in East Timor
11: Peter Sercombe: Challenges Facing Eastern Penan in Borneo
Part IV Pedagogical Approaches to Revitalization and Maintenance
12: D. Victoria Rau and Meng-Chien Yang: Digital Transmission of Language and Culture: Rethinking Pedagogical Models for e-learning
13: Julie Barbour: Language Documentation and Literacy Development: The Neverver Literacy Project
14: Catherine Young: First Language Education in Multilingual Contexts
Index of Subjects
Index of Place Names
Index of Languages
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