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Author:   Margaret Florey (Monash University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.750kg
ISBN:  

9780199544547

ISBN 10:   0199544549
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   26 November 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I Overview 1: Margaret Florey: Introduction 2: Alexander K. Adelaar: An Overview of Language Documentation in the Austronesian World Part II Linguistic Vitality: Theory, Assessments, and Challenges 3: Nikolaus P. Himmelmann: Language Endangerment Scenarios: A Case Study From Northern Central Sulawesi 4: Charles E. Grimes: Digging for the Roots of Language Death in Eastern Indonesia: The Cases of Kayeli and Hukumina 5: I. Wayan Arka: Maintaining Vera in Rongga: Struggles Over Culture, Tradition, and Language in Modern Manggarai-Indonesia 6: Thomas N. Headland: Why the Philippine Negrito Languages are Endangered part III Capacity Building and Revitalization Initiatives 7: Margaret Florey and Nikolaus Himmelmann: New Directions in Field Linguistics: Training Strategies for Language Documentation in Indonesia 8: Nick Thieberger: Anxious Respect for Linguistic Data: The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) and the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity (RNLD) 9: Hannah Vari-Bogiri: Language Work in Vanuatu 10: John Hajek and John Bowden: Waima'a: Challenges for Language Description and Maintenance in East Timor 11: Peter Sercombe: Challenges Facing Eastern Penan in Borneo Part IV Pedagogical Approaches to Revitalization and Maintenance 12: D. Victoria Rau and Meng-Chien Yang: Digital Transmission of Language and Culture: Rethinking Pedagogical Models for e-learning 13: Julie Barbour: Language Documentation and Literacy Development: The Neverver Literacy Project 14: Catherine Young: First Language Education in Multilingual Contexts Index of Subjects Index of Place Names Index of Languages

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... a substantial contribution to the field of language documentation and language endangerment ... of wide interest not just to specialists in Austronesian languages, and to those concerned with language documentation and langugage endangerment worldwide. It will prove invaluable and thought-provoking to sociolinguistics across all language families. Darrell Tryon, Studies in Language Vol. 35:2

... a substantial contribution to the field of language documentation and language endangerment ... of wide interest not just to specialists in Austronesian languages, and to those concerned with language documentation and langugage endangerment worldwide. It will prove invaluable and thought-provoking to sociolinguistics across all language families. * Darrell Tryon, Studies in Language Vol. 35:2 *

Author Information

Margaret Florey is an experienced field linguist with endangered languages in eastern Indonesia. She is actively involved in advocacy and international capacity building activities with members of Indigenous communities. Her research interests include the minority languages of the Austronesian and Australian language families, language endangerment, language documentation, and ethnobiology. She has published extensively on the endangered languages of the Austronesian region. Margaret is a consultant linguist with Terralingua and serves on its Board of Governors, is a co-founder of the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity, and chairs the steering committee for the International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Margaret has also contributed as an international expert at the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Section Experts' Meetings on the Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage.

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