State of the art of indigenous languages in research
Author: International Year of Indigenous Languages
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2022-09-30
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9231005219
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Handbook of Heritage, Community, and Native American Languages in the United States
Author: Terrence G. Wiley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-03
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 1136332480
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Co-published by the Center for Applied Linguistics Timely and comprehensive, this state-of-the-art overview of major issues related to heritage, community, and Native American languages in the United States, based on the work of noted authorities, draws from a variety of perspectives—the speakers; use of the languages in the home, community, and wider society; patterns of acquisition, retention, loss, and revitalization of the languages; and specific education efforts devoted to developing stronger connections with and proficiency in them. Contributions on language use, programs and instruction, and policy focus on issues that are applicable to many heritage language contexts. Offering a foundational perspective for serious students of heritage, community, and Native American languages as they are learned in the classroom, transmitted across generations in families, and used in communities, the volume provides background on the history and current status of many languages in the linguistic mosaic of U.S. society and stresses the importance of drawing on these languages as societal, community, and individual resources, while also noting their strategic importance within the context of globalization.
Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas
Author: Serafín M. Coronel-Molina
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-28
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1135092346
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focusing on the Americas – home to 40 to 50 million Indigenous people – this book explores the history and current state of Indigenous language revitalization across this vast region. Complementary chapters on the USA and Canada, and Latin America and the Caribbean, offer a panoramic view while tracing nuanced trajectories of "top down" (official) and "bottom up" (grass roots) language planning and policy initiatives. Authored by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, the book is organized around seven overarching themes: Policy and Politics; Processes of Language Shift and Revitalization; The Home-School-Community Interface; Local and Global Perspectives; Linguistic Human Rights; Revitalization Programs and Impacts; New Domains for Indigenous Languages Providing a comprehensive, hemisphere-wide scholarly and practical source, this singular collection simultaneously fills a gap in the language revitalization literature and contributes to Indigenous language revitalization efforts.
Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9004322574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century Bruno Estigarribia and Justin Pinta offer a series of state-of-the-art linguistic studies of Guarani, the only indigenous language of the Americas spoken by a non-indigenous majority.
Linguistics and Archaeology in the Americas
Author: Eithne B. Carlin
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-05-03
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9047427084
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The contributors to this volume, an international group of leading specialists, guide us through different aspects of the study of Amerindian languages and societies that lie at the heart of the extensive and multi-facetted work of Willem Adelaar, the forerunning specialist in Native American studies of Meso and South America, and Professor of Amerindian Studies at Leiden University. The contributors focus on three larger regions, the Andes, Amazonia, Meso-America and the Circum-Caribbean region, giving us a state of the art overview of current linguistic and archaeological research trends that illuminate the dynamicity and historicity of the Americas, in migratory movements, contact situations, grouping and re-grouping of identities and the linguistic results thereof. This book is a must-have for all scholars of the American continent.
Information Structure in Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Author: José Camacho
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 3110228521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The study of the interaction between syntax and information structure has attracted a great deal of attention since the publication of foundational works on this subject such as Enric Vallduví's (1992) The Informational Component and Knud Lambrecht's (1994) Information Structure and Sentence Form. The book inserts itself in this contemporary interest by providing a collection of articles on different aspects of the syntax-pragmatics interface in the indigenous languages of The Americas. The first chapter provides a brief introduction of the some of the basic descriptive issues addressed in them, and of some of the theoretical tools that have been developed to analyze them. The readerfinds articles that focus mostly on empirical issues, while others are mostly oriented to theoretical issues. Diverse theoretical approaches are addressed, including Minimalism, Optimality-theoretic syntax, and Meaning-Text Theory. The volume includes articles on the following topics: the grammatical means to encode pragmatic notions in Tariana (A. Aikhenvald); the relation between clause structure and information structure in Lushootseed (D. Beck); the split distribution of null subjects in Shipibo (J. Camacho and J. Elías-Ulloa); the syntactic structure of left-peripheral discourse-related functions in Kuikuro (B. Franchetto and M. Santos), an agglutinative and head final language; word order and focus patterns in Yaqui (L. Guerrero and V. Belloro); SVO and topicalization in Yucatec Maya (R. Gutiérrez-Bravo and J. Monforte); the structure of the left-periphery in Karaja (Maia) and the interaction between the wh-words and polarity sensitivity in Southern Quechua (L. Sánchez).
Indigenous knowledge for climate change assessment and adaptation
Author: Nakashima, Douglas
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2018-12-31
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9231002767
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The International Year of Indigenous Languages
Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2021-11-11
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9231004840
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Indigenous Language Acquisition, Maintenance, and Loss and Current Language Policies
Author: Okamura, Toru
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2020-08-28
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1799829618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The world’s linguistic map has changed in recent years due to the vast disappearance of indigenous languages. Many factors affect the alteration of languages in various areas of the world including governmental policies, education, and colonization. As indigenous languages continue to be affected by modern influences, there is a need for research on the current state of native linguistics that remain across the globe. Indigenous Language Acquisition, Maintenance, and Loss and Current Language Policies is a collection of innovative research on the diverse policies, influences, and frameworks of indigenous languages in various regions of the world. It discusses the maintenance, attrition, or loss of the indigenous languages; language status in the society; language policies; and the grammatical characteristics of the indigenous language that people maintained and spoke. This book is ideally designed for anthropologists, language professionals, linguists, cultural researchers, geographers, educators, government officials, policymakers, academicians, and students.
Language, Society and the State in a Changing World
Author: Stanley D. Brunn
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-04-08
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 3031181468
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book addresses the changing contemporary language worlds in three major contexts. It first discusses how the language landscape maps of cities are changing as a result of increased migration, globalization and global media. These features are evident in place names and place name changes as well as the densities and frequencies of language spoken and used in texts. The second section discusses how the state itself is responding to both indigenous and heritage groups desiring to be included and represented in the state’s political landscapes and also expressions of art and culture. In the third section, the authors address a number of cutting-edge theses that are emerging in the linguistic geography and political words. These include the importance of gender, anthropogenetic discourse, the preservation of endangered languages and challenges to a state’s official language policy. Through including authors from nine different countries, who are writing about issues in twelve countries and their overlapping interests in language mapping, language usage and policy and visual representations, this book provides inspiring research into future topics at local, national, regional and international scales.
