Counting the losses: numbers as the language of language endangerment
Counting the losses: numbers as the language of language endangerment
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计算损失：数字作为语言濒危的语言
DOI：
10.1558/sols.v4i1.1
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发表时间：
2010
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0.8
通讯作者：
J. Blommaert
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作者：
R. Moore;Sari Pietikäinen;J. Blommaert
本文提供了一套批判性的思考，使用（S）的数字来沟通的事实，不断变化的动态语言转变的言语社区。这种数字表示法很普遍，而且在语言专业知识的各个领域都很重要。在对计数实践进行文献调查之后，本文重点讨论了支撑语言计数的三个语言意识形态决定：首先，需要决定谁是说话者。在语言濒危的讨论中，说话者数量是语言濒危特征的最重要的单一指标。其次，为了计算一个地区、国家或世界范围内不同语言的数量，必须做出决定，优先考虑将语言作为有界、封闭和地理固定实体的概念。最后，需要就继续使用“小”语言、濒危语言或少数民族语言的领域作出决定。从域的讨论中，我们开发了一个替代的视野，中心不是不同的，命名的，可数的语言，但在扬声器和剧目，以及扬声器部署在实际环境中的实际资源。将以土著萨米语、非洲语和美洲土著语言使用者的当代情况为例。
This paper provides a set of critical reflections on the use(s) of numbers to communicate facts about the changing dynamics of speech communities undergoing language shift. Such numerical representations are widespread, and they are of important in segments of language expertise. After a literature survey of counting practices, the paper focuses on three language-ideological decisions underpinning language counting: First, decisions need to be made as to who counts as a speaker. In discussions of language endangerment, speaker counts are the most important single index of the endangered character of the language. Secondly, in order to count the number of distinct languages in a region, country, or world area, decisions must be made which privilege a notion of languages as bounded, closed, and geographically fixed entities. Finally, decisions need to be made with respect to the domains in which “small,” endangered, or minority languages continue to be used. From the discussion of domains we develop an alternative vision that centers not on distinct, named, countable languages, but on speakers and repertoires, and on the actual resources that speakers deploy in actual contexts. The contemporary situation of speakers of indigenous Sami, African and Native American languages will be drawn upon for examples.