Endangered languages and languages in danger : : issues of documentation, policy, and language rights / / edited by Luna Filipovic and Martin Putz.

• Superior document: IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society, Volume 42
• Author: International L.A.U.D.-Symposium
• TeilnehmendeR: Filipović, Luna,; Putz, Martin,; International L.A.U.D.-Symposium (36th : 2014 : Universität Koblenz-Landau)
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ;, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Impact, studies in language and society ; Volume 42.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (425 p.)
• Notes: "The collection of contributions included in this volume was originally presented at the 36th International LAUD Symposium on Endangered Languages, which took place on March 31-April 3, 2014 at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Landau campus). The chapters in this volume include a selection of a small portion of the papers that were presented at this conference. A second collection of papers stemming from the Landau conference was edited by Martin Pütz and Neele Mundt (2016) and is entitled "Vanishing Languages in Context: Ideological, Attitudinal and Social Identity Perspectives."

This peer-reviewed collection brings together the latest research on language endangerment and language rights. It creates a vibrant, interdisciplinary platform for the discussion of the most pertinent and urgent topics central to vitality and equality of languages in today's globalised world. The novelty of the volume lies in the multifaceted view on the variety of dangers that languages face today, such as extinction through dwindling speaker populations and lack of adequate preservation policies or inequality in different social contexts (e.g. access to justice, education and research resources). There are examples of both loss and survival, and discussion of multiple factors that condition these two different outcomes. We pose and answer difficult questions such as whether forced interventions in preventing loss are always warranted or indeed viable. The emerging shared perspective is that of hope to inspire action towards improving the position of different languages and their speakers through research of this kind.

Table of Contents

Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Foreword; Table of contents; Introduction: Endangered languages and languages in danger; 1. Preliminary remarks; 2. Endangerment of languages and language ecology; 3. Why are endangered languages worth saving (Or what is lost when languages die)?; 4. Causes of language endangerment and disappearance: Language shift; 5. Language policy and linguistic human rights ; 6. Assessing ethnolinguistic vitality status; 7. Responses to language endangerment; 8. Critique of the endangered-languages movement; References

Section 1. Perspectives on endangerment: Ideology, language policy and language rightsNorth-South relations in linguistic science: Collaboration or colonialism?; 1. Introduction: Why document endangered languages?; 2. ELDR: Evolving paradigms; 3. North-South relations: Unequal exchange between academics and communities; 4. North-South relations: Unequal exchange inside the academe; References; Indigenous language policies in Brazil: Training indigenous people as teachers and researchers; 1. Introduction

2. A brief account of the last thirty years of indigenous languages research and documentation3. The implementation of linguistic, cultural and educational policies benefiting indigenous peoples; 4. Conclusions; References; Language rights in danger: Access to justice and linguistic (in)equality in multilingual judicial co; 1. Introduction; 2. Facing the law without speaking the language: UK migrant prisoners' perspective; 3. Police interviews in the US: Barrier of translation; 4. Conclusion; References

Towards language planning for sign languages: Measuring endangerment and the treatment of British Si1. Introduction; 2. Local/regional mass media and governmental spheres; 3. Reversing language shift and BSL; 4. Policy and conventions; 5. Concluding recommendations; References; Appendix; A cost-and-benefit approach to language loss; 1. Introduction; 2. Some disputable assumptions about language endangerment and loss; 3. By way of conclusions; References; Section 2. Language documentation, ethno-history and language vitality; Language documentation 20 years on

1. Defining language documentation2. Best practices, tools and models; 3. Critical responses; 4. Developments in archiving; 5. Language documentation and revitalization; 6. Documentation and academia; 7. Conclusions; References; The brief existence of Saipan Carolinian: A study of a vanishing language storing valuable linguisti; 1. Introduction; 2. Linguistic characteristics of SpnCRL, a blended Carolinian language; 3. Migration pattern reflected in SpnCRL speech; 4. Conclusion; References; Aikanã and Kwaza: Their ethno-historical and sociolinguistic context in Rondônia, Brazil

1. Introduction