TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dorian,Nancy C.
TI  - Small-language fates and prospects: lessons of persistence and change from endangered languages : collected essays 
T2  - Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture
SN  - 9789004261938
AV  - P40.5.E532 S36 2014
U1  - 491.6/3 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Endangered languages
KW  - Scottish Gaelic language
KW  - Dialects
KW  - Scotland
N1  - Includes index; Preliminary Material; Nancy C. Dorian --; Introduction; Nancy C. Dorian --; 1 Grammatical Change in a Dying Dialect (1973); Nancy C. Dorian --; 2 The Fate of Morphological Complexity in Scottish Gaelic Language Death: Evidence from East Sutherland Gaelic (1978); Nancy C. Dorian --; 3 Making do with Less: Some Surprises along the Language Death Proficiency Continuum (1986); Nancy C. Dorian --; 4 Negative Borrowing in an Indigenous Language Shift to the Dominant National Language (2006); Nancy C. Dorian --; 5 The Problem of the Semi-Speaker in Language Death (1977); Nancy C. Dorian --; 6 Language Shift in Community and Individual: The Phenomenon of the Laggard Semi-Speaker (1980); Nancy C. Dorian --; 7 Defining the Speech Community to Include its Working Margins (1982); Nancy C. Dorian --; 8 Abrupt Transmission Failure in Obsolescing Languages: How Sudden the ‘Tip’ to the Dominant Language in Communities and Families? (1986); Nancy C. Dorian --; 9 Age and Speaker Skills in Receding Language Communities: How Far do Community Evaluations and Linguists’ Evaluations Agree? (2009); Nancy C. Dorian --; 10 Linguistic Lag as an Ethnic Marker (1980); Nancy C. Dorian --; 11 Language Loss and Maintenance in Language Contact Situations (1982); Nancy C. Dorian --; 12 The Value of Language-Maintenance Efforts which are Unlikely to Succeed (1987); Nancy C. Dorian --; 13 The Ambiguous Arithmetic of Language Maintenance and Revitalization (2011); Nancy C. Dorian --; 14 Purism vs. Compromise in Language Revitalization and Language Revival (1994); Nancy C. Dorian --; 15 Western Language Ideologies and Small-Language Prospects (1998); Nancy C. Dorian --; 16 Bi- and Multilingualism in Minority and Endangered Languages (2004); Nancy C. Dorian --; 17 Stylistic Variation in a Language Restricted to Private-Sphere Use (1994); Nancy C. Dorian --; 18 Telling the Monolinguals from the Bilinguals: Unrealistic Code Choices in Direct Quotations within Scottish Gaelic Narratives (1997); Nancy C. Dorian --; 19 Celebrations: In Praise of the Particular Voices of Languages at Risk (1999); Nancy C. Dorian --; 20 Gathering Language Data in Terminal Speech Communities (1986); Nancy C. Dorian --; 21 Surprises in Sutherland: Linguistic Variability amidst Social Uniformity (2001); Nancy C. Dorian --; 22 Documentation and Responsibility (2010); Nancy C. Dorian --; 23 The Private and the Public in Language Documentation and Revitalization (2010); Nancy C. Dorian --; Author Index; Nancy C. Dorian --; General Index; Nancy C. Dorian
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004261938
ER  -