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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... spoken only in the home, or only among elders, or at ceremonial events. As they fall silent, elderly speakers become invisible, lacking any linguistic difference that would set them apart from the people surrounding them. At the same ...
... spoken only in the home, or only among elders, or at ceremonial events. As they fall silent, elderly speakers become invisible, lacking any linguistic difference that would set them apart from the people surrounding them. At the same ...
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... spoken nowhere else on earth.16 Alaska now has a majority English-speaking population of 640,000 people. Small islands of languages are being submerged in a rising sea of English. Unlike Alaska, Chad, and Vanuatu, the countries of ...
... spoken nowhere else on earth.16 Alaska now has a majority English-speaking population of 640,000 people. Small islands of languages are being submerged in a rising sea of English. Unlike Alaska, Chad, and Vanuatu, the countries of ...
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... spoken by a mere 0.2 percent of the global population. These include very small languages like Tofa (30 speakers in. Indonesia 737 Solomon Islands 70 Papua New Guinea 820 the human knowledge base precisely because systems like reindeer ...
... spoken by a mere 0.2 percent of the global population. These include very small languages like Tofa (30 speakers in. Indonesia 737 Solomon Islands 70 Papua New Guinea 820 the human knowledge base precisely because systems like reindeer ...
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... spoken by fewer than 3,000 people in the Amazon jungle of Peru, has unusual word order. An Urarina sentence containing three elements in the following order: Kinkajou's bag + steal + spider monkey is understood to mean “The spider ...
... spoken by fewer than 3,000 people in the Amazon jungle of Peru, has unusual word order. An Urarina sentence containing three elements in the following order: Kinkajou's bag + steal + spider monkey is understood to mean “The spider ...
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... spoken. If you speak an unwritten language, one that your children or grandchildren have abandoned in favor of another tongue, you may indeed take your unsticky genius with you to the grave. Much of this genius is the product of ...
... spoken. If you speak an unwritten language, one that your children or grandchildren have abandoned in favor of another tongue, you may indeed take your unsticky genius with you to the grave. Much of this genius is the product of ...
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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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