- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-5
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Languages Heal
Pages 7-31
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Languages Inform
Pages 33-39
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Reasons for Endangerment
Pages 41-49
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Supporting Linguistic Vitality
Pages 51-67
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Why Language Documentation Matters
- Authors
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- Shobhana Chelliah
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Linguistics
- Copyright
- 2021
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-66190-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-66190-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-66189-2
- Series ISSN
- 2197-0009
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 94
- Number of Illustrations
- 6 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
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