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- Provides an overview of the field of language documentation, written by a leading expert
- Offers useful and current information for those engaged in language documentation, as well as those who analyze and build linguistic theory
- Is written in an engaging style and encourages involvement in the bid to document the world's endangered languages
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Linguistics (SBIL)
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About this book
This book offers the latest insights on language documentation, a reborn, refashioned, and reenergized subfield of linguistics motivated by the urgent task of creating a record of the world’s fast disappearing languages. Language documentation provides data to challenge and improve existing linguistic theory. In addition, because it requires input from various fields to be comprehensive, language documentation serves to build bridges between linguistics and other disciplines. Language documentation also provides resources for communities interested in language and culture preservation, language maintenance, and language revitalization. This book informs, evokes interest, and encourages involvement at all levels.
Authors and Affiliations
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Linguistics, University of North Texas, Denton, USA
Shobhana L. Chelliah
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Why Language Documentation Matters
Authors: Shobhana L. Chelliah
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Linguistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66190-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66189-2Published: 23 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66190-8Published: 22 January 2021
Series ISSN: 2197-0009
Series E-ISSN: 2197-0017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 94
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Minority Languages, Linguistic Anthropology, Comparative Linguistics