When Languages Die The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

Name: When Languages Die The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge
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ISBN: 9780195372069

ISBN-10: 0195372069

ISBN-13: 9780195372069

Edition: 2008

Authors: K. David Harrison

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It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost when a language dies? What forms of knowledge are embedded in a language's structure and vocabulary? And how harmful is it to humanity that such knowledge is lost forever? Harrison spans the globe from Siberia, to North America, to the Himalayas and elsewhere, to…

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Wade Davis was named one of the Explorers for the Millennium by the National Geographic Society. He is an anthropologist and ethnobotanist whose books include the international bestsellerThe Serpent and the Rainbow. K. David Harrison is a linguist whose work with endangered languages is receiving national attention. He conducts expeditions to remote places around the world in his study of global language loss.




A World of Many (Fewer) Voices



An Extinction of (Ideas about) Species


Case Study: Vanishing Herds and Reindeer Words



Many Moons Ago: Traditional Calendars and Time-Reckoning


Case Study: Nomads of Western Mongolia



An Atlas in the Mind


Case Study: Wheel of Fortune and a Blessing



Silent Storytellers, Lost Legends


Case Study: New Rice versus Old Knowledge



Endangered Number Systems: Counting to Twenty on Your Toes


Case Study: The Leaf-Cup People, India's Modern 'Primitives'



Worlds within Words


Notes


Bibliography


Index