Get Free Shipping on orders over $0
Sustaining Language Use : Perspectives on Community-Based Language Development - M.  Paul Lewis

Sustaining Language Use

Perspectives on Community-Based Language Development

By: M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, G. Richard Tucker (Foreword by)

Paperback | 9 December 2016

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $73.65

$65.75

11%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $16.44 with

 or 

Ships in 5 to 7 business days

How does a language community sustain their language in the face of ever-increasing forces of language shift? This volume, both a textbook and a handbook, is the result of ten years of reflection by the authors in light of SIL International’s 80 years of fieldwork in local language communities. Using the Sustainable Use Model detailed here, readers learn how to advise maintaining use of their language at a sustainable level. This could include, not only the level of active literacy, but also levels of orality and identity. The book is aimed at “on the ground” workers involved with a community, to address issues arising from language and culture contact.



M. Paul Lewis (Ph.D., sociolinguistics, Georgetown University) did fieldwork in Guatemala, was general editor of the Ethnologue®, and is a Sociolinguistics Consultant with SIL. His research interests are language endangerment, language policy and planning, and language documentation. He has consulted and trained on six continents.



Gary F. Simons (Ph.D., linguistics, Cornell University) is Chief Research Officer for SIL and Executive Editor of the Ethnologue®. He was involved in language development in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, co-founder of the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC), and co-developer of the ISO 639-3 identifiers for the world’s languages.




"In this clearly written monograph, Lewis and Simons lay the groundwork for those who [work] with members of local language communities, to help them implement diverse activities that most effectively lead to a sustainable level of language use. They build appropriately upon the groundbreaking work that was carried out several decades ago by sociolinguists such as Charles Ferguson, Robert Cooper, and Joshua Fishman."
- Adapted from the Foreword by G. Richard Tucker

More in Human Rights

PATRIOT - Alexei Navalny

Paperback

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Women, Race & Class : Penguin Modern Classics - Angela Y. Davis

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Discipline - Randa Abdel-Fattah

Paperback

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
Raven Mother : War, family and inheritance: a memoir - Jane Messer
Perfect Victims : And The Politics Of Appeal - Mohammed El-Kurd

RRP $27.99

$23.75

15%
OFF
Pedagogy of the Oppressed : PMC - Paulo Freire

RRP $26.99

$20.75

23%
OFF
When the World Sleeps : Stories, Words and Wounds of Palestine - Francesca Albanese
Desert Flower : The Extraordinary Life of a Desert Nomad - Waris Dirie