When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human KnowledgeOxford University Press, 1 февр. 2007 г. - Всего страниц: 304 It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost when a language dies? What forms of knowledge are embedded in a language's structure and vocabulary? And how harmful is it to humanity that such knowledge is lost forever? Harrison spans the globe from Siberia, to North America, to the Himalayas and elsewhere, to look at the human knowledge that is slowly being lost as the languages that express it fade from sight. He uses fascinating anecdotes and portraits of some of these languages' last remaining speakers, in order to demonstrate that this knowledge about ourselves and the world is inherently precious and once gone, will be lost forever. This knowledge is not only our cultural heritage (oral histories, poetry, stories, etc.) but very useful knowledge about plants, animals, the seasons, and other aspects of the natural world--not to mention our understanding of the capacities of the human mind. Harrison's book is a testament not only to the pressing issue of language death, but to the remarkable span of human knowledge and ingenuity. It will fascinate linguists, anthropologists, and general readers. |
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... language, the most massive, complex constellation of ideas we know, ceases to be spoken? This book is my attempt to explain why language death matters. On a personal level, I have formed close personal friendships with the last speakers ...
... language, the most massive, complex constellation of ideas we know, ceases to be spoken? This book is my attempt to explain why language death matters. On a personal level, I have formed close personal friendships with the last speakers ...
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... language about every 10 days for the foreseeable future. Ös will surely be among them. Given life expectancy figures in Russia, we could predict Ös to be gone by the year 2015. All across the world, the loss is accelerating. You do not ...
... language about every 10 days for the foreseeable future. Ös will surely be among them. Given life expectancy figures in Russia, we could predict Ös to be gone by the year 2015. All across the world, the loss is accelerating. You do not ...
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... Language disappearance is an erosion or extinction of ideas, of ways of knowing, and ways of talking about the world and human experience. Linguist Ken Hale, who worked on many endangered languages up until his death in 2001, told a ...
... Language disappearance is an erosion or extinction of ideas, of ways of knowing, and ways of talking about the world and human experience. Linguist Ken Hale, who worked on many endangered languages up until his death in 2001, told a ...
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... Language death typically begins with political or social discrimination against a language or its speakers. This may take the form of official state policies to suppress speech, or it may be benign neglect. Constantine Mukhaev, one of ...
... Language death typically begins with political or social discrimination against a language or its speakers. This may take the form of official state policies to suppress speech, or it may be benign neglect. Constantine Mukhaev, one of ...
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... language. Svetlana D., one of the last speakers of Tofa, told me in 2001: “The other day my daughter asked me, 'Mom, why didn't you teach us Tofa?'... I don't know why. Such a beautiful, difficult language! Now it is all forgotten.” Not ...
... language. Svetlana D., one of the last speakers of Tofa, told me in 2001: “The other day my daughter asked me, 'Mom, why didn't you teach us Tofa?'... I don't know why. Such a beautiful, difficult language! Now it is all forgotten.” Not ...
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Traditional Calendars and TimeReckoning | 61 |
4 An Atlas in the Mind | 101 |
5 Silent Storytellers Lost Legends | 141 |
Counting to Twenty on Your Toes | 167 |
7 Worlds within Words | 205 |
Notes | 237 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 285 |
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