Responses to Language Endangerment
Responses to Language Endangerment

Author: Elena Mihas

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2013-11-15

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 9027271151

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This volume further complicates and advances the contemporary perspective on language endangerment by examining the outcomes of the most commonly cited responses to language endangerment, i.e. language documentation, language revitalization, and training. The present collection takes stock of many complex and pressing issues, such as the assessment of the degree of language endangerment, the contribution of linguistic scholarship to language revitalization programs, the creation of successful language reclamation programs, the emergence of languages that arise as a result of revitalization efforts after interrupted transmission, the ethics of fieldwork, and the training of field linguists and language educators. The volume’s case studies provide detailed personal accounts of fieldworkers and language activists who are grappling with issues of language documentation and revitalization in the concrete physical and socio-cultural settings of native speaker communities in different regions of the world.

The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore
The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore

Author: Akintunde Akinyemi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-03-05

Total Pages: 1041

ISBN-13: 3030555178

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This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve and renew the scholarship of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the Diaspora just as critical concerns about their survival are pushed to the forefront of the field. With five sections on the central themes within orality and folklore – including engagement ranging from popular culture to technology, methods to pedagogy – this handbook is an indispensable resource to scholars, students, and practitioners of oral traditions and folklore preservation alike. This definitive reference is the first to provide detailed, systematic discussion, and up-to-date analysis of African oral traditions and folklore.

Khwe dictionary
Khwe dictionary

Author: Christa Kilian-Hatz

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13:

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Die vorliegende Studie ist das Ergebnis mehrerer Forschungsaufenthalte im westlichen Caprivi-Streifen (Nordnamibia) während der Jahre 1996-2001. Sie basiert auf dem Material Oswin Köhlers. Außerdem enthält sie Eintragungen aus folgenden Quellen: Botanische Terminologie von Mathias Schladt (1999), Eigennamen von Matthias Brenzinger (1999) und verschiedene Einträge zur materiellen Kultur von Gertrud Boden und Stefanie Michels (2000). Khwe ist aus sprachwissenschaftlicher Sicht eine von sechs Dialektgruppen des Zentralkhoisan. Fünf dieser Dialektgruppen umfassen nach Köhler die Idiome von San-Gemeinschaften, die sechste die Dialekte aller Khoikhoi- und Bergdama-Gemeinschaften sowie einige weitere Sangemeinschaften. Zur Zeit leben ungefähr 8.000 Khwe im Caprivi-Streifen Nordwest-Namibias, in Angola, in Botswana und in Sambia sowie weitere 1.600 in Smithsdrift, Südafrika. Ein Anhang, der Ethnonyme, Klan-, Familien- und Eigennamen auflistet sowie ein etwa vierzigseitiger Beitrag von Matthias Brenzinger, der eine ausführliche Liste von Ortsnamen im westlichen Caprivi-Streifen enthält, beschließen die Studie.