Economics of education : an analysis of college-going behavior /
The aim of this book is to answer from an economics viewpoint such questions as why some people go to college while others do not, and why the percentages of different types of students going to college have changed so dramatically throughout the world over the past few decades. The information cont...
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. General issues. 1. Western language ideologies and small language prospects / Nancy C. Dorian. 2. Toward a typology of language endangerment / Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley pt. II. Language community responses. 3. Technical, emotional, and ideological issues in reversing language shift: examples from Southeast Alaska / Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer. 4. Mayan efforts toward language preservation / Nora C. England. 5. A chronology of Mohawk language instruction at Kahnawa:ke / Kaia'titahkhe Annette Jacobs. 6. Language endangerment in South America: a programmatic approach / Colette Grinevald pt. III. What is lost: language diversity. 7. The significance of diversity in language endangerment and preservation / Marianne Mithun. 8. On endangered languages and the importance of linguistic diversity / Ken Hale. 9. Living words and cartoon translations: Longhouse "texts" and the limitations of English / Christopher Jocks. 10. Documenting rhetorical, aesthetic, and expressive loss in language shift / Anthony C. Woodbury pt. IV. Mechanisms of language loss. 11. Impact of language variation and accommodation theory on language maintenance: an analysis of Shaba Swahili / Andre Kapanga. 12. A way to dusty death: the Matrix Language turnover hypothesis / Carol Myers Scotton. 13. Copper Island Aleut: a case of language "resurrection" / Nikolai Vakhtin.