Endangered Languages and New Technologies (Hardcover)

At a time when many of the world's languages are at risk of extinction, the imperative to document, analyse and teach them before time runs out is very great. At this critical time new technologies, such as visual and aural archiving, digitisation of textual resources, electronic mapping and social media, have the potential to play an integral role in language maintenance and revitalisation. Drawing on studies of endangered languages from around the world - Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America - this volume considers how these new resources might best be applied, and the problems that they can bring. It also re-assesses more traditional techniques of documentation in light of new technologies and works towards achieving a practicable synthesis of old and new methodologies. This accessible volume will be of interest to researchers in language endangerment, language typology and linguistic anthropology, and to community members working in native language maintenance.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2014
Editors:	Mari C. Jones
Dimensions:	235 x 157 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	228
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-04959-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	1-107-04959-8
Barcode:	9781107049598

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