Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger

1. Foreword; 2. Introduction: Endangered languages and languages in danger (by Filipovic, Luna); 3. Section 1: Perspectives on endangerment: Ideology, language policy and language rights; 4. North-South relations in linguistic science: Collaboration or colonialism? (by Grinevald, Colette); 5. Indigenous language policies in Brazil: Training indigenous people as teachers and researchers (by Cabral, Ana Suelly Arruda Camara); 6. Language rights in danger: Access to justice and linguistic (in)equality in multilingual judicial contexts (by Hales, Liz); 7. Towards language planning for sign languages: Measuring endangerment and the treatment of British Sign Language (by Jones, Jill); 8. A cost-and-benefit approach to language loss (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.); 9. Section 2: Language documentation, ethno-history and language vitality; 10. Language documentation 20 years on (by Austin, Peter); 11. The brief existence of Saipan Carolinian: A study of a vanishing language storing valuable linguistic and historical insights on the tongue of its speakers (by Ellis, S. James); 12. Aikana and Kwaza: Their ethno-historical and sociolinguistic context in Rondonia, Brazil (by Voort, Hein van der); 13. Metaphors of an endangered forest people, the Yanomae (N. Brazil) (by Gomez, Gale Goodwin); 14. Measuring and understanding ethnolinguistic vitality in Papapana (by Smith, Ellen); 15. Section 3: Language transmission: Shift, loss and survival; 16. The art of losing: Beyond java, patois and postvernacular vitality - Repositioning the periphery in global Asian ecologies (by Lim, Lisa); 17. Reacting to language endangerment: The Akie of north-central Tanzania (by Heine, Bernd); 18. Language transmission and use in a bilingual setting in rural Tanzania: Findings from an in-depth study of Ngoni (by Rosendal, Tove); 19. Language shift and endangerment in urban and rural East Africa: Three case studies (by Gibson, Maik); 20. Redefining priorities, methods and standards in endangered-language lexicography: From lexical erosion in Palikur to areal lexicography (by Nemo, Francois); 21. Jewish language varieties: Loss and survival (by Spolsky, Bernard); 22. Index