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100 1 $aHagège, Claude,$d1936-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82145658
240 10 $aHalte à la mort des langues.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009012800
245 10 $aOn the death and life of languages /$cClaude Hagège ; translated by Jody Gladding.
260 $aNew Haven, CT :$bYale University Press,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $aix, 364 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 335-345) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tLanguages, providers of life -- $g2.$tLanguages, living species -- $g3.$tLanguage and speech -- $g4.$tWords and the struggle for life -- $g5.$tWhat is a dead language? -- $g6.$tThe paths to extinction -- $g7.$tThe battalion of causes -- $g8.$tTaking stock -- $g9.$tFactors in preservation and the struggle against disaster -- $g10.$tHebrew - from life to death and from death to life -- $g11.$tNew languages, creoles, promotions.
520 1 $a"Twenty-five languages die each year; at this pace, about half the world's five thousand languages will disappear by the end of this century. In this timely book, Claude Hagege seeks to make clear the magnitude of the cultural loss represented by the crisis of language death and to provide hope by exploring language regeneration. Throughout he uses a central metaphor of language as a living entity." "As crucial repositories of culture, languages give permanence to traditions, proverbs, and knowledge of our ancestors and survive the transience of speech. Hagege's wide-ranging examination covers all continents and language families to uncover not only how languages die and the causes that prompt decline, but also how they can be revitalized and the actions that societies can take to combat language death. He focuses on the regeneration of Hebrew as a modern language, tracing the history of this language over the course of the twentieth century and describing the factors that contributed to its rebirth. He then considers related cases such as Cornish, Gaelic, Yiddish, and creole languages." "Hagege likens languages to bonfires of social behavior that leave behind sparks even after they die. These sparks offer the possibility of regrowth for all dead languages. Because they are creations of the human mind, languages do not simply die and disappear; they have incredible vitality, even as they are constantly vulnerable to decline."--BOOK JACKET.
546 $aTranslated from the French.
650 0 $aLanguage obsolescence.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88003305
650 0 $aLanguage revival.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074580
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