Screen LibraryLesser-known languages of South Asia : status and policies, case studies and applications of information technology /
We do not at the present time know how the language situation in a multilingual region such as South Asia will be affected by modern information and communication technologies: Will linguistic diversity be strengthened or weakened as they become increasingly prevalent in all walks of life? This volu...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2008] ©2006 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Trends in linguistics. studies and monographs [tilsm] ;
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| Summary: |
We do not at the present time know how the language situation in a multilingual region such as South Asia will be affected by modern information and communication technologies: Will linguistic diversity be strengthened or weakened as they become increasingly prevalent in all walks of life? This volume brings together articles on South Asian descriptive linguistics and sociolinguistics, documentary linguistics, issues of intellectual and cultural property and fieldwork ethics, and language technology. The book provides the reader with some basic knowledge of the problems concerned and some directions from which solutions could be forthcoming. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (394pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110197785 |
| Index Number: | P40 |
| CLC: | H004.35 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Language situation and language policies in South -- Asia -- Status of lesser-known languages in India -- Minority language policies and politics in -- Nepal -- Language policy, multilingualism and language -- vitality in Pakistan -- Lesser-known language communities of South Asia: -- Linguistic and sociolinguistic case studies -- Vanishing voices: A typological sketch of Great -- Andamanese -- Lisu orthographies and email -- Shina in contemporary Pakistan -- The rise of ethnic consciousness and the -- politicization of language in west-central Nepal -- Why Ladakhi must not be written Being part of the -- Great Tradition: Another kind of global thinking -- Information and communication technologies and -- languages of South Asia -- The impact of technology on language diversity and -- multilingualism -- The impact of technological advances on Tamil -- language use and planning -- Corpus-building for South Asian languages -- Digitized resources for languages of Nepal -- Multimedia: A community-oriented information and -- communication technology -- Language survival kits -- Grammatically based language technology for -- minority languages -- Supporting lesser-known languages: The promise of -- language technology -- Worrying about ethics and wondering about informed -- consent : Fieldwork from an Americanist perspective -- Backmatter |