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Language diversity endangered
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ISBN: 3110905698 9783110905694 9783110170498 9783110170504 3110170493 3110170507 9786612193705 1282193708 311019712X Year: 2007 Volume: 181 Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter,

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This book presents a comprehensive overview of endangered languages with a global coverage. It features such well-known specialists as Michael Krauss, Willem F. H. Adelaar, Denny Moore, Colette Grinevald, Akira Yamamoto, Roger Blench, Bruce Connell, Tapani Salminen, Olga Kazakevich, Aleksandr Kibrik, Jonathan Owens, David Bradley, George van Driem, Nicholas Evans, Stephen A. Wurm, Darrell Tryon and Matthias Brenzinger. The contributions are unique in analysing the present extent and the various kinds of language endangerment by applying shared general indicators for the assessment of language endangerment. Apart from presenting the specific situations of language endangerment at the sub-continental level, the volume discusses major issues that bear universally on language endangerment. The actual study of endangered languages is carefully examined, for example, against the ethics and pragmatics of fieldwork. Practical aspects of community involvement in language documentation are discussed, such as the setting up of local archives and the training of local linguists. Numerous case studies illustrate different language shift environments with specific replacing factors, such as colonial and religious conquests, migrations and governmental language education. The book is of interest to students and scholars of linguistics with particular focus on endangered languages (and their documentation), typology, and sociolinguistics as well as to anthropologists and language activists.


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Sprachwechsel afrikanischer Minoritäten aus soziolinguistischer Sicht
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ISBN: 3929777088 9783929777086 Year: 1998 Publisher: Köln: Universität zu Köln. Institut für Afrikanistik,

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Berührungsmomente Kenya : bei den Marakwet in den Bergen und den Pokomo am Fluss
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Year: 1986 Publisher: Köln Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek

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The body in language : comparative studies of linguistic embodiment
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ISBN: 9004274294 9789004274297 9789004274280 9004274286 1322514917 Year: 2014 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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The Body in Language: Comparative studies of Linguistic Embodiment provides new insights into the theory of linguistic embodiment in its universal and cultural aspects. The contributions of the volume offer theoretical reflections on grammaticalization, lexical semantics, philosophy, multimodal communication and - by discussing metaphorization and metonymy in figurative language - on cognitive linguistics in general. Case studies contribute first-hand data on embodiment from more than 15 languages and present findings on the body in language in diverse cultures from various continents. Embodiment fundamentally underlies human conceptualization and the present discussions reveal a wide range of target domains in conceptual transfers with the body as the source domain.


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Khwe dictionary
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ISBN: 3896450832 Year: 2003 Publisher: Köln : Köppe,

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Critical toponomy : place names in political, historical and commercial landscape
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ISBN: 1928424252 1928424244 Year: 2019 Publisher: Bloemfontein UJ Press

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Critical Toponymy: Place names in political, historical and commercial landscapes contains a selection of double-blind peer-reviewed papers from the 4th International Symposium on Place Names that took place 18-20 September 2017 in Windhoek, Namibia. These papers present current thinking on how the critical turn in social sciences is manifested in toponymic research, not only locally but also internationally. As such it includes research on place names from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Austria, Slovenia, Central America and even the former Czechoslovakia. The contributions show that the etymology of place names are never purely linguistic – social, political, commercial and other factors influence the giving, use and adaptations of these linguistic and cultural artefacts. Furthermore, given their high symbolic content, place names also serve as political and commercial currency. Place names are therefore important symbolic markers in preserving or changing cultural identities, and in marking or facilitating socio-political changes and relations. Critical Toponymy showcases the many ways in which the representational potential of place names can be deployed in different contexts. Scholars as well as practitioners in toponymy and sociolinguistics will find this an illuminating read.


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Proceedings of the 6th World congress of African linguistics, Cologne, 17-21 August 2009
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ISBN: 9783896451996 3896451995 Year: 2012 Publisher: Köln: Köppe,

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ISBN: 9783110197129 9783110170498 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berlin ;; Boston De Gruyter Mouton

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