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| Genre/Form: | Case studies |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Discourses of endangerment. London : Continuum, 2008 (OCoLC)679300160 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alexandre Duchêne; Monica Heller |
| ISBN: | 9781847063229 1847063225 |
| OCLC Number: | 212431911 |
| Notes: | Originally published: 2007. |
| Description: | x, 290 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface, Sally Johnson (University of Leeds, UK); 1. Endangered discourses, Alexandre Duchene (Universitat Basel, Switzerland) and Monica Heller (University of Toronto, Canada); 2. Defending diversity, Shaylih Muehlmann (University of Toronto, Canada); 3. Indigenous language survival in Canada, Donna Patrick (Carleton University, Canada); 4. Who wants to save the Patois d'Evolene?, Marinette Matthey (University de Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Raphael Maitre (University de Neuchatel, Switzerland); 5. Linguistics, civil society and discourses of endangerment, Alexandra Jaffe (California State University, USA); 6. Discourses on language in the Ukraine, Patrick Seriot (Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland); 7. Language ideological debates in Sweden, Tommasso Milani (Stockholm University, Denmark); 8. Language endangerment, war and peace in Northern Ireland, Tony Crowley (Manchester University, UK); 9. The future of Catalan, Joan Pujolar (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain); 10. Competing discourses of language preservation along the Baie Sainte-Marie, Annette Boudreau and Lise Dubois (Universite de Moncton, Canada); 11. France and the preservation of French, Claudine Moise (Universite d'Avingnon et de Pays Vaucluse, France); 12. Defending English in an English-dominant world, Ron Schmidt (California State University, USA); 13. Language endangerment and verbal hygiene, Deborah Cameron (Oxford University, UK). |
| Series Title: | Advances in sociolinguistics. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Alexandre Duchêne and Monica Heller. |
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."..the volume's co-editors argue persuasively...an especially compelling set of questions...authors [are] very skilled in reading ideologies from their data...As a critique of discourses of endangerment, the volume makes significant strides not merely in questioning the rhetorical strategies used to discuss language extinction but also in disclosing conflicts of interest underlying these approaches...this volume takes a major step in offering a language ideological interpretation of how political-economic interests have shaped two very different kinds of threats - one rather real, the other quite imagined...it is a critical complement to such works for scholars interested in language ideological construction of "endangerment.""Language in Society, 2009 Read more...
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- Endangered languages.
- Linguistic change.
- Sociolinguistics -- Case studies.
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