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Endangered Languages and New Technologies
Mari Jones
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Description for Endangered Languages and New Technologies
hardcover. This book explores how new technologies have the potential to revolutionise the documentation, analysis and revitalisation of endangered languages. Editor(s): Jones, Mari C.; Connolly, Christopher. Num Pages: 228 pages, 29 b/w illus. 5 maps 8 tables. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF; JHM; PDR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
At a time when many of the world's languages are at risk of extinction, the imperative to document, analyse and teach them before time runs out is very great. At this critical time new technologies, such as visual and aural archiving, digitisation of textual resources, electronic mapping and social media, have the potential to play an integral role in language maintenance and revitalisation. Drawing on studies of endangered languages from around the world - Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America - this volume considers how these new resources might best be applied, and the problems that they can ... Read more
At a time when many of the world's languages are at risk of extinction, the imperative to document, analyse and teach them before time runs out is very great. At this critical time new technologies, such as visual and aural archiving, digitisation of textual resources, electronic mapping and social media, have the potential to play an integral role in language maintenance and revitalisation. Drawing on studies of endangered languages from around the world - Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America - this volume considers how these new resources might best be applied, and the problems that they can ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107049598
SKU
V9781107049598
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-20
About Mari Jones
Mari C. Jones is Reader in French Linguistics and Language Change at the University of Cambridge and Fellow in Modern and Medieval Languages at Peterhouse, Cambridge. A highly experienced fieldworker, she has published extensively on language obsolescence and revitalisation in relation to Insular and Continental Norman, Welsh and Breton. Her recent publications include Keeping Languages Alive (2013, edited with Sarah ... Read more
Reviews for Endangered Languages and New Technologies
'This volume presents groundbreaking work on the opportunities and challenges of using technology in the study and revitalization of endangered languages and is sure to become a foundational work in this field.' Lenore A. Grenoble, University of Chicago 'In an age of language endangerment crisis and rapid technological developments, this volume sets the tone for future discussions on technologies for ... Read more