Dying words: endangered languages and what they have to tell us
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Malden, MA [u.a.]
Wiley-Blackwell
2010
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| Schriftenreihe: | The language library
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| Beschreibung: | 2009 erschienen Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Umfang: | XXII, 287 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9780631233053 9780631233060 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Prologue
xv
A Note on the Presentation of Linguistic Material
xx
Part I The Library of Babel
1
1
Warramurrungunji s Children
5
2
Four Millennia to Tune In
24
Part II A Great Feast of Languages
45
3
A Galapagos of Tongues
49
4
Your Mind in Mine: Social Cognition in Grammar
69
Part III Faint Tracks in an Ancient Wordscape: Languages and Deep
World History
81
5
Sprung from Some Common Source
85
6
Travels in the Logosphere: Hooking Ancient Words onto Ancient Worlds
105
7
Keys to Decipherment: How Living Languages Can Unlock Forgotten
Scripts
129
Part IV Ratchetting Each Other Up: The
Coevolutíon
of Language, Culture,
and Thought
155
8
Trellises of the Mind: How Language Trains Thought
159
9
What Verse and Verbal Art Can Weave
182
Part V listening While We Can
205
10
Renewing the Word
207
Epilogue: Sitting in the Dust, Standing in the Sky
229
viii Contents
Notes
232
References
249
Index of Languages and Language Families
274
Index
280
A fascinating and colourful view of what we are losing as languages
die, by a linguist who understands the significance of our loss more
deeply than most.
Greville G. Corbett, University of Surrey
Nick Evans book is an elegant, eloquently rendered narrative of the
human story as revealed through our languages. With deep erudition
in world literatures both oral and written, he captures the interplay
between speaker and tradition, word and thought, language and land;
and he shares with his readers the intellectual life of speakers and
humanist-scientists seeking to preserve and document this heritage.
Tony Woodbury, University of Texas at Austin
The next century will see more than half of the world s
6,000
languages become
extinct. Most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Yet each
distills the philosophy, knowledge, and cultural fabric of a different people. This
compelling book asks what loss to our collective intellectual heritage will be
inflicted by the death of these languages. It brings the conceptual issues vividly to
life by weaving in portraits of individual last speakers and stories about linguists
and their discoveries.
In exploring what humanity stands to lose by this massive language extinction,
Dying Words considers a variety of connected issues: How can we can best respond
to the challenge of recording and documenting these fragile oral traditions while
they are still with us? Why does such astounding linguistic diversity exist in the
first place? What can it tell us about the nature of language and the human mind?
And what insights can these languages give us into deep world history? Written by
one of the leading figures in language documentation, Dying Words draws on
a wealth of examples from Evans own field experience and that of other
scholars around the world to give us a fascinating insight into the field of
endangered languages.
Nicholas Evans is head of the Department of Linguistics, Research School of
Pacific Studies, Australian National University. He has worked on a wide variety of
Australian Aboriginal languages as linguist, anthropologist and interpreter, and has
recently extended his fieldwork into Papuan languages of the Trans-Fly region. He
has written widely both on Aboriginal languages and on general linguistic topics,
including grammars of Kayardild
(1995)
and Bininj Gun-wok
(2003),
and
dictionaries of Kayardild
(1992)
and Dalabon
(2004,
with Francesca
Merlan
and Maggie Tukumba).
Cover image: Bentinck Island Artists Sweers Island
2008 .
Courtesy the artists, Mornington Island Arts
&
Craft. Queensland and Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne. Arthur Roe Collection, Melbourne
Cover design by Simon
Le
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