North-South relations in linguistic science

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Section 1
6. North-South relations in linguistic science 25
7. Indigenous language policies in Brazil 45
8. Language rights in danger 61
9. Towards language planning for sign languages 87
10. A cost-and-benefit approach to language loss 115
11. Section 2
12. Language documentation 20 years on 147
13. The brief existence of Saipan Carolinian 171
14. Aikanã and Kwaza 203
15. Metaphors of an endangered forest people, the Yanomae (N. Brazil) 231
16. Measuring and understanding ethnolinguistic vitality in Papapana 249
17. Section 3
18. The art of losing 283
19. Reacting to language endangerment 313
20. Language transmission and use in a bilingual setting in rural Tanzania 335
21. Language shift and endangerment in urban and rural East Africa 351
22. Redefining priorities, methods and standards in endangered-language lexicography 361
23. Jewish language varieties 387
24. Index 411