/2009/02/24/learning-an-endangered-language-part-4/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 /2009/02/24/learning-an-endangered-language-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-585137 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:35:18 +0000 /?p=1673#comment-585137 Hi Liz. I’m familiar with David Harrison’s work. He’s done a great job at popularizing this stuff, but it wasn’t something I was going to write about. I recommend the Joseph Errington article I linked to in Part 3 for a good discussion of the ways in which linguists and activists tend to frame these issues. I will be focusing (when I get a chance to finish the series) on more practical matters.

]]> /2009/02/24/learning-an-endangered-language-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-584982 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:35:11 +0000 /?p=1673#comment-584982 In your Learning an Endagered Language series, are you going to talk about David Harrison’s work? As an anthropologist, I think his idea of “documentary linguistics” is interesting. And his efforts to spread the word not only about little-known languages but also, and perhaps as importantly, about linguistics to the public is worthy and worth noting.

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