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Title

Endangered Austronesian and Australian Aboriginal languages : essays on language documentation, archiving, and revitalization / edited by Gunter Senft.

Publication

Canberra, ACT : Pacific Linguistics, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Senft, Gunter, 1952-
• Australian National University. Pacific Linguistics

Description

vi, 221 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

The anthology focuses mainly on endangered Oceanic languages, with articles on Vanuatu by Darrell Tryon and the Marquesas by Gabriele Cablitz, on situations of loss and gain by Ingjerd Hom︠ and on the Kilivila language of the Trobriands by the editor. Nick Thieberger, Peter Wittenburg and Paul Trilsbeek, and David Blundell and colleagues write about aspects of linguistic archiving. Under the rubric of revitalization, Margaret Florey and Michael Ewing write about Maluku, Jakelin Troy and Michael Walsh about Australian Aboriginal languages in southeastern Australia, whilst three articles, by Sophie Nock, Diane Johnson and Winifred Crombie concern the revitalization of Maori.

Series Statement

Pacific linguistics ; 617

Uniform Title

Pacific linguistics 617.

Subject

• Language obsolescence > Islands of the Pacific
• Language obsolescence > Australia
• Aboriginal Australians > Languages
• Austronesian languages
• Endangered languages
• Language revival
• Language attrition
• Language maintenance
• Cultural property > Protection

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1: The documentation of endangered languages : the endangered languages of Vanuatu / Darrell Tryon -- A field report on a language documentation project on the Marquesas in French Polynesia / Gabrielle Cablitz -- Language endangerment: situations of loss and gain / Ingjerd Hoëm -- Culture change -- language change: missionaries and moribund varieties of Kilivila / Gunter Senft -- Part II: The archiving of the documented materials : Linguistic preservation and linguistic responsibility: examples from the Pacific / Nick Thieberger -- Digital archiving -- a necessity in documentary linguistics / Peter Wittenburg and Paul Trilsbeek -- Empowering Pacific languages and cultures mapping with applied case studies in Taiwan and the Philippines / David Blundell et al. -- Part III: Revitalisation of endangered languages : Political acts and language revitalization: community and state in Maluku / Margaret Florey and Michael C. Ewing -- A linguistic renaissance in the south east of Australia / Jakelin Troy and Michael Walsh -- Te Reo Maori -- Maori language revitalization / Sophie Nock -- Learnings style preferences and New Zealand Maori students: questioning folk wisdom / Diane Johnson -- Classroom-based language revitalization: the interaction between curriculum planning and teacher development in the case of Maori language / Winifred Crombie.

ISBN

• 9780858836235 (pbk)
• 0858836238 (pbk)

OCLC

• 656001765
• SCSB-12275537

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Harvard Library