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Dorian, Nancy Currier was born in 1936 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, AMERICA0. Daughter of Donald Clayton and Edith (McEwen) Dorian.
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(Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death) Author: Nancy C. Dorian published on (October, 2004)
(Languages die for political, economic and cultural reason...)
Languages die for political, economic and cultural reasons, and can disappear remarkably quickly. Between ten and fifty per cent of all languages currently spoken can be considered endangered, but it is only in the past ten years or so that due importance has been given to the study of contracting and dying languages. This volume represents the first attempt to give a broad overview of current research in a developing field, and to examine some of the crucial methodological and theoretical issues to which it has given rise. It includes twenty studies by scholars who, taken together, have worked on a range of languages currently under threat across the globe. They occur in diverse speech communities where the expanding languages are not only those that are very familiar - English, Spanish, or French, for example - but also Swedish, Arabic, Thai etc. The final part of the volume is devoted to a consideration of the implications of research into language obsolescence for other aspects of linguistics and anthropology - first and second language acquisition, historical linguistics, and the study of pidgins and creoles and of language and social process. As a whole, this collection will certainly stimulate further and better co-ordinated research into a topic of direct relevance to sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics.
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Investigating Obsolescence INVESTIGATING OBSOLESCENCE By Dorian, Nancy C. ( Author )Jul-06-1989 Hardcover By Dorian, Nancy C. ( Author ) Hardcover 2004
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Tyranny of Tide: An Oral History of the East Sutherland Fisherfolk
(An oral history of the East Sutherland Fisherfolk "This i...)
An oral history of the East Sutherland Fisherfolk "This is the story of a small highland community in the early twentieth century, told in direct and vivid language which brings to life the varied concerns, beliefs, and loyalties of the Golspie fisherfolk. But it is more than that." A vanished way of life remembered-painstakingly recreated from the memories of those who lived it, and party in their words, the fisherfolk life of East Sutherland is here celebrated by Nancy C. Dorian, who has written extensively about East Sutherland Gaelic.
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Nancy Currier Dorian
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude, Connecticut College for Women, 1958; postgraduate, Yale University, 1959-1960; Master of Arts, University of Michigan, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy (Rackham fellow), University of Michigan, 1965.
Career
Lecturer, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, 1965-1966; assistant professor linguistics in German and anthropology, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, 1966-1972; associate professor, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, 1972-1978; professor, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, since 1978; William R. Kenan Junior professor, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, 1980-1985. Visiting lecturer University of Pennsylvania, 1966, 70, U. Kiel, 1967-1968.
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Tyranny of Tide: An Oral History of the East Sutherland Fisherfolk
(An oral history of the East Sutherland Fisherfolk "This i...)
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(Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death) Author: Nancy C. Dorian published on (October, 2004)
(Languages die for political, economic and cultural reason...)
- Investigating Obsolescence INVESTIGATING OBSOLESCENCE By Dorian, Nancy C. ( Author )Jul-06-1989 Hardcover By Dorian, Nancy C. ( Author ) Hardcover 2004
- East Sutherland Gaelic: The Dialect of the Brora, Golspie and Embo Fishing Communities (Irish Language - Scottish Dialects)
- Language Death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect
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Tyranny of Tide: An Oral History of the East Sutherland Fisherfolk
Membership
Member Linguistic Society American.
