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Why Language Documentation Matters

Authors:

  1. Shobhana L. Chelliah

    1. Linguistics, University of North Texas, Denton, USA

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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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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-5

  3. Languages Heal

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    Pages 7-31

  4. Languages Inform

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    Pages 33-39

  5. Reasons for Endangerment

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    Pages 41-49

  6. Supporting Linguistic Vitality

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    Pages 51-67

  7. Methods in Language Documentation and Description

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    Pages 69-84

  8. Linguistic Fieldwork Contributing to Documentation

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    Pages 85-90

  9. Impact of Language Documentation

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    Pages 91-94
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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. 

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Keywords

  • Language Documentation
  • Linguistic Anthropology
  • Linguistic Fieldwork
  • Language Revitalization
  • Documenting Indigenous Languages
  • Language Corpora
  • minority languages
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Linguistics, University of North Texas, Denton, USA

    Shobhana L. Chelliah

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