{"id":4637,"date":"2011-03-14T01:45:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T14:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=4637"},"modified":"2011-03-15T08:14:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T21:14:44","slug":"endangered-languages-critical-concepts-in-linguistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2011\/03\/endangered-languages-critical-concepts-in-linguistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered Languages: Critical Concepts in Linguistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrelp.org\/aboutus\/staff\/index.php?cd=sm\">Stuart McGill<\/a> and I have recently completed work on a new book <i>Endangered Languages: Criticial Concepts in Linguistics<\/i> that will be published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\/books\/details\/9780415438438\/\">Routledge<\/a> later this year. At 1,600 pages in 4 volumes it is one of the largest projects I have been involved with.<\/p>\n<p>The book consists of 75 key journal articles and selected book chapters that deal with issues in endangered language studies and represent what we feel are the essential readings that anyone wanting to become familiar with the field from its beginnings to the present day should have access to. In addition, we have written introductions to each of the four volumes, and a general introduction to the whole work outlining the history of research on endangered languages and highlighting what we see as some of the challenges faced by the field today. <\/p>\n<p>The four volumes are:<\/p>\n<p><b>Volume I: Beginnings<\/b><br \/>\nPart 1: Language obsolescence and death<br \/>\nPart 2: Structural changes<br \/>\nPart 3: Implications of language loss<\/p>\n<p><b>Volume II: Language Documentation<\/b><br \/>\nPart 4: Defining language documentation<br \/>\nPart 5: Data in language documentation<br \/>\nPart 6: Documentation methods<\/p>\n<p><b>Volume III: Language planning and case studies in revitalisation<\/b><br \/>\nPart 7: language planning models<br \/>\nPart 8: case studies in revitalisation <\/p>\n<p><b>Volume IV: Issues in revitalisation and challenges for linguists<\/b><br \/>\nPart 9: General issues in revitalisation<br \/>\nPart 10: Challenges for linguists<br \/>\nPart 11: Endangered languages in the future <\/p>\n<p>A detailed list of chapters can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\/books\/details\/9780415438438\/\">Routledge website<\/a> in the &#8220;contents&#8221; tab.<\/p>\n<p>The book is due to be available on 4th August 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague Stuart McGill and I have recently completed work on a new book Endangered Languages: Criticial Concepts in Linguistics that will be published by Routledge later this year. At 1,600 pages in 4 volumes it is one of the largest projects I have been involved with. The book consists of 75 key journal articles &#8230; <a title=\"Endangered Languages: Critical Concepts in Linguistics\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2011\/03\/endangered-languages-critical-concepts-in-linguistics\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Endangered Languages: Critical Concepts in Linguistics\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4637"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5012,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions\/5012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}