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"The Last Speakers opens our eyes and hearts to the human realities of language loss. If you plan to read just one book on language this year, make it this one."--David Crystal, author of Language Death "This wonderful book is really three wonderful books wrapped into one: a world travelogue of languages; a moving personal account of the last speakers of vanishing languages; and a revelation of the knowledge tied to each language. Perhaps you're among the many people who think, 'Wouldn't we better off with just a few major languages? Let those thousands of little local languages disappear.' After reading this book you'll know why all those little local languages do matter, and what can be done to save them."--Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography at UCLA and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse "Harrison has found new ways of looking at endangered languages, developing the concept of a language hotspot, and so focusing on the kind of interactions that make up a language ecology. This book gives an inkling of the radical ways in which endangered languages may yet inspire and enrich the understanding of people all over the world, and so find a new and nobler value in globalization."--Nicholas Ostler, author of Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World "K. David Harrison is a language warrior, defending the world's linguistic minorities by speaking simply and eloquently of their dilemma--language loss."--Delphine Red Shirt, Oglala Sioux Tribe, lecturer at Stanford University in special languages "What K. David Harrison calls 'landscape awareness' is deeply embedded cultural knowledge that many indigenous peoples, currently residing in their homelands throughout the world, have kept alive for centuries through daily conversation. He is one of the few non-indigenous people to experience it first-hand and to understand it. He articulates it well, in particular, for the Tuvan people and others, to whom he kept his solemn promise to tell people outside their world that they exist and are well. In terms of language loss, many are not doing well, simply due to the fact, as the author eloquently points out, the cultural knowledge encoded in their languages is about survival. When that is lost, how can they survive? This question looms large for the rest of humanity, according to the author. This is a book that should be read by both indigenous and non-indigenous language warriors for the sake of human survival."--Delphine Red Shirt, Oglala Sioux Tribe, lecturer at Stanford University in special languages "This chronicle is as much an homage to noble elders who often struggle to surmount indifference in their own communities as it is an op-ed by the author, who sounds the alarm among a skeptical public, and even other scientists, about the incalculable loss posed by a language's extinction." -The Washington Post
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"The Last Speakers" is an engaging and thought-provoking treatment that reports on the extinction crisis that threatens many languages worldwide. Through photos, graphics, short vignettes, interviews, and first-person stories, this scientist's notebook documents linguist K. David Harrison's around-the-world adventures to meet with last speakers of languages. The speakers' points of view are revealed through candid direct quotations and captivating photographs that capture the individuals not simply in static poses, but in active engagement with their environment and their traditional and modern lifeways. Writing in a personal journalistic style, Harrison details his travels to visit language hotspots around the world - an undertaking also chronicled in the recent film "The Linguists". Working with other professionals, photographer Chris Rainier, and local scholars, Harrison ventures to remote corners of Bolivia, Australia, Siberia, Japan, and India. There he seeks out any speakers of languages previously reported as extinct, and tries to clarify numbers of speakers for very small languages. "The Last Speakers" clearly explains the new, cutting-edge methods in social science that the team employs, as well as summaries of well-established (yet not widely known) scientific knowledge in the field. Languages don't disappear only in tiny hamlets. Harrison also visits last speakers living in urban areas in the developed world, to demonstrate that language extinction is happening, though largely invisibly, right in our own backyard. Sites include Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Japan, and several European nations. At some of these locations we observe focused efforts at language revitalisation, including the use of computer and internet technologies to assist small languages in bridging the digital divide. Ultimately, Harrison's book humanises the global language-extinction crisis. Last speakers eloquently discuss their feelings about their language, what will be lost if it goes extinct, and how and why they believe this loss is happening. To prevent extinction of these cherished words and meanings, some speakers actively participate in language revitalization programs, working to pass on their knowledge to young generations. Their stories, which Harrison tells with empathy and respect, help us to grasp the impact of language extinction and the realization that when languages are lost, so are culture, diversity, and heritage.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.
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