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| Title | Book Review: Saving Languages |
| Body | From http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-2580.html#1 TITLE: Saving Languages AUTHOR: Grenoble, Lenore A.; Whaley, Lindsay J. SUBTITLE: An Introduction to Language Revitalization PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press YEAR: 2005 Larisa Leisiö, unaffiliated linguist The main goal of this book is to serve as a general reference guide to language revitalization. The book is designed for readers of various levels of proficiency in linguistics: for linguists, anthropologists, educators, policy makers, humanitarian workers, missionaries, and language activists - all concerned with the survival of a language community. The outline of the book with seven chapters is as follows. In the first three chapters the authors construct a conceptual framework for understanding variables relevant in the situation of language endangerment. Four case studies of Chapter 4 illustrate the interplay of these variables in the course of revitalization. In Chapters 5 and 6, two major issues of revitalization, literacy and orthography, are discussed in-depth. Chapter 7 guides the reader into creating a language revitalization program. Read the complete review at http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-2580.html#1 . |
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