Small-language fates and prospects : lessons of persistence and change from endangered languages : collected essays /
Dorian, Nancy C.
Small-language fates and prospects : lessons of persistence and change from endangered languages : collected essays / By Nancy C. Dorian ; With a Foreword By Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Robert M. Dixon. - 1 online resource. - Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture ; 6 . - Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture 6. Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262478. .
Includes index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction / 1 Grammatical Change in a Dying Dialect (1973) / 2 The Fate of Morphological Complexity in Scottish Gaelic Language Death: Evidence from East Sutherland Gaelic (1978) / 3 Making do with Less: Some Surprises along the Language Death Proficiency Continuum (1986) / 4 Negative Borrowing in an Indigenous Language Shift to the Dominant National Language (2006) / 5 The Problem of the Semi-Speaker in Language Death (1977) / 6 Language Shift in Community and Individual: The Phenomenon of the Laggard Semi-Speaker (1980) / 7 Defining the Speech Community to Include its Working Margins (1982) / 8 Abrupt Transmission Failure in Obsolescing Languages: How Sudden the ‘Tip’ to the Dominant Language in Communities and Families? (1986) / 9 Age and Speaker Skills in Receding Language Communities: How Far do Community Evaluations and Linguists’ Evaluations Agree? (2009) / 10 Linguistic Lag as an Ethnic Marker (1980) / 11 Language Loss and Maintenance in Language Contact Situations (1982) / 12 The Value of Language-Maintenance Efforts which are Unlikely to Succeed (1987) / 13 The Ambiguous Arithmetic of Language Maintenance and Revitalization (2011) / 14 Purism vs. Compromise in Language Revitalization and Language Revival (1994) / 15 Western Language Ideologies and Small-Language Prospects (1998) / 16 Bi- and Multilingualism in Minority and Endangered Languages (2004) / 17 Stylistic Variation in a Language Restricted to Private-Sphere Use (1994) / 18 Telling the Monolinguals from the Bilinguals: Unrealistic Code Choices in Direct Quotations within Scottish Gaelic Narratives (1997) / 19 Celebrations: In Praise of the Particular Voices of Languages at Risk (1999) / 20 Gathering Language Data in Terminal Speech Communities (1986) / 21 Surprises in Sutherland: Linguistic Variability amidst Social Uniformity (2001) / 22 Documentation and Responsibility (2010) / 23 The Private and the Public in Language Documentation and Revitalization (2010) / Author Index / General Index / Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian.
In Small-language Fates and Prospects Nancy C. Dorian gathers findings from decades of documenting an endangered Scottish Gaelic dialect, presenting detailed evidence of contraction and loss but also recording a positive role for imperfect speakers. Retention of language skills undervalued by linguists but positively viewed by the community has supported the survival of local Gaelic-English bilingualism well beyond early predictions. Nonetheless, potent factors that threaten small-language survival everywhere have also operated here. Negative social attitudes towards the minority population, loss of a traditional occupation, the increasing impact of majority-culture ideologies, are recurrent phenomena in small-language settings. Maintenance or revitalization efforts pose special challenges under these circumstances, as does fieldwork itself when adverse sociohistorical forces have left very few fluent speakers.
9789004261938
10.1163/9789004261938 DOI
2014002474
Endangered languages.
Scottish Gaelic language--Dialects--Scotland.
P40.5.E532 / S36 2014
491.6/3
Small-language fates and prospects : lessons of persistence and change from endangered languages : collected essays / By Nancy C. Dorian ; With a Foreword By Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Robert M. Dixon. - 1 online resource. - Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture ; 6 . - Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture 6. Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262478. .
Includes index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction / 1 Grammatical Change in a Dying Dialect (1973) / 2 The Fate of Morphological Complexity in Scottish Gaelic Language Death: Evidence from East Sutherland Gaelic (1978) / 3 Making do with Less: Some Surprises along the Language Death Proficiency Continuum (1986) / 4 Negative Borrowing in an Indigenous Language Shift to the Dominant National Language (2006) / 5 The Problem of the Semi-Speaker in Language Death (1977) / 6 Language Shift in Community and Individual: The Phenomenon of the Laggard Semi-Speaker (1980) / 7 Defining the Speech Community to Include its Working Margins (1982) / 8 Abrupt Transmission Failure in Obsolescing Languages: How Sudden the ‘Tip’ to the Dominant Language in Communities and Families? (1986) / 9 Age and Speaker Skills in Receding Language Communities: How Far do Community Evaluations and Linguists’ Evaluations Agree? (2009) / 10 Linguistic Lag as an Ethnic Marker (1980) / 11 Language Loss and Maintenance in Language Contact Situations (1982) / 12 The Value of Language-Maintenance Efforts which are Unlikely to Succeed (1987) / 13 The Ambiguous Arithmetic of Language Maintenance and Revitalization (2011) / 14 Purism vs. Compromise in Language Revitalization and Language Revival (1994) / 15 Western Language Ideologies and Small-Language Prospects (1998) / 16 Bi- and Multilingualism in Minority and Endangered Languages (2004) / 17 Stylistic Variation in a Language Restricted to Private-Sphere Use (1994) / 18 Telling the Monolinguals from the Bilinguals: Unrealistic Code Choices in Direct Quotations within Scottish Gaelic Narratives (1997) / 19 Celebrations: In Praise of the Particular Voices of Languages at Risk (1999) / 20 Gathering Language Data in Terminal Speech Communities (1986) / 21 Surprises in Sutherland: Linguistic Variability amidst Social Uniformity (2001) / 22 Documentation and Responsibility (2010) / 23 The Private and the Public in Language Documentation and Revitalization (2010) / Author Index / General Index / Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian -- Nancy C. Dorian.
In Small-language Fates and Prospects Nancy C. Dorian gathers findings from decades of documenting an endangered Scottish Gaelic dialect, presenting detailed evidence of contraction and loss but also recording a positive role for imperfect speakers. Retention of language skills undervalued by linguists but positively viewed by the community has supported the survival of local Gaelic-English bilingualism well beyond early predictions. Nonetheless, potent factors that threaten small-language survival everywhere have also operated here. Negative social attitudes towards the minority population, loss of a traditional occupation, the increasing impact of majority-culture ideologies, are recurrent phenomena in small-language settings. Maintenance or revitalization efforts pose special challenges under these circumstances, as does fieldwork itself when adverse sociohistorical forces have left very few fluent speakers.
9789004261938
10.1163/9789004261938 DOI
2014002474
Endangered languages.
Scottish Gaelic language--Dialects--Scotland.
P40.5.E532 / S36 2014
491.6/3