Speak not : empire, identity and the politics of language /
Griffiths, James T. 1988-
Speak not : empire, identity and the politics of language / James Griffiths. - vi, 251 pages : maps (black and white)
I. Welsh -- Blue books -- Fire and fury -- Signs of change -- Bilingual nation -- Interlude : Afri-Can't -- II. Hawaiian -- The princess who was promised -- Sandwiched islands -- I Mua Kamehameha -- Ke Ea Hawaii -- Road closed due to desecration -- Interlude : the old, new tongue -- III. Cantonese -- Dialectics -- A Chinese alphabet -- Common tongue -- 'Cantonese gives you nasal cancer' -- Sounds of separatism -- Language plateau.
"James Griffiths reports from the frontlines of the battle to preserve minority languages, from his native Wales, Hawaii and indigenous American nations, to southern China and Hong Kong. He explores the revival of the Welsh language as a blueprint for how to ensure new generations are not robbed of their linguistic heritage, outlines how loss of indigenous languages is the direct result of colonialism and globalisation and examines how technology is both hindering and aiding the fight to prevent linguistic extinction" --
9781786999696 9781786999665 9781786999689
GBC1E2952 bnb
020308484 Uk
Linguistic minorities.
Language attrition.
Language revival.
305.7
Speak not : empire, identity and the politics of language / James Griffiths. - vi, 251 pages : maps (black and white)
I. Welsh -- Blue books -- Fire and fury -- Signs of change -- Bilingual nation -- Interlude : Afri-Can't -- II. Hawaiian -- The princess who was promised -- Sandwiched islands -- I Mua Kamehameha -- Ke Ea Hawaii -- Road closed due to desecration -- Interlude : the old, new tongue -- III. Cantonese -- Dialectics -- A Chinese alphabet -- Common tongue -- 'Cantonese gives you nasal cancer' -- Sounds of separatism -- Language plateau.
"James Griffiths reports from the frontlines of the battle to preserve minority languages, from his native Wales, Hawaii and indigenous American nations, to southern China and Hong Kong. He explores the revival of the Welsh language as a blueprint for how to ensure new generations are not robbed of their linguistic heritage, outlines how loss of indigenous languages is the direct result of colonialism and globalisation and examines how technology is both hindering and aiding the fight to prevent linguistic extinction" --
9781786999696 9781786999665 9781786999689
GBC1E2952 bnb
020308484 Uk
Linguistic minorities.
Language attrition.
Language revival.
305.7