Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa (Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] Book 64)

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. Social Contexts Of Language Death / Matthias Brenzinger And Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- Theory Of Language Death / Hans-jürgen Sasse -- Codeswitching As A Mechanism Of Deep Borrowing, Language Shift, And Language Death / Carol Myers-scotton -- Language Decay And Contact-induced Change / Hans-jürgen Sasse -- East African Case Studies / Matthias Brenzinger -- The Fate Of Ethnic Languages In Tanzania / Herman Batibo -- Languages Shift In Tanzania / Karsten Legère -- Reduction In Kore Reconsidered / Gerrit Dimmendaal -- Dahalo / Mauro Tosco Language Death And The Origin Of Strata: Two Case Studies Of Swahili Dialects / Wilhelm J.g. Möhlig -- Chifundi And Vumba / Derek Nurse And Martin Walsh -- Lexical Retention In Language Shift: Yaaku/mukogodo - Maasai And Elmolo/elmolo - Samburu / Matthias Brenzinger -- Dialect Death: The Case Of Terik / Bernd Heine -- Language Shift Among The Suba Of Kenya / Franz Rottland And Duncan Okoth Okombo -- 175 Years Of Language Shift In Gweno / Christoph Winter -- A Survey Of Language Death In Africa / Gabriele Sommer. Edited By Matthias Brenzinger. Articles ... Based On Contributions Initially Prepared For An International Symposium On 'language Death In East Africa,' Held At The Werner-reimers Foundation In Bad Homburg (germany) From January 8-12, 1990--preface. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications.

It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other.

The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches – theoretical and empirical – supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines – anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher. The most macabre of the numerous anthropomorphic metaphors linguists provide for their subject matter is that of language death.