Table of Contents

Part I Overview
1: Margaret Florey: Introduction
2: Alexander K. Adelaar: An Overview of Language Documentation in the Austronesian World
Part II Linguistic Vitality: Theory, Assessments, and Challenges
3: Nikolaus P. Himmelmann: Language Endangerment Scenarios: A Case Study From Northern Central Sulawesi
4: Charles E. Grimes: Digging for the Roots of Language Death in Eastern Indonesia: The Cases of Kayeli and Hukumina
5: I. Wayan Arka: Maintaining Vera in Rongga: Struggles Over Culture, Tradition, and Language in Modern Manggarai-Indonesia
6: Thomas N. Headland: Why the Philippine Negrito Languages are Endangered
part III Capacity Building and Revitalization Initiatives
7: Margaret Florey and Nikolaus Himmelmann: New Directions in Field Linguistics: Training Strategies for Language Documentation in Indonesia
8: Nick Thieberger: Anxious Respect for Linguistic Data: The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) and the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity (RNLD)
9: Hannah Vari-Bogiri: Language Work in Vanuatu
10: John Hajek and John Bowden: Waima'a: Challenges for Language Description and Maintenance in East Timor
11: Peter Sercombe: Challenges Facing Eastern Penan in Borneo
Part IV Pedagogical Approaches to Revitalization and Maintenance
12: D. Victoria Rau and Meng-Chien Yang: Digital Transmission of Language and Culture: Rethinking Pedagogical Models for e-learning
13: Julie Barbour: Language Documentation and Literacy Development: The Neverver Literacy Project
14: Catherine Young: First Language Education in Multilingual Contexts
Index of Subjects
Index of Place Names
Index of Languages

About the Author

Margaret Florey is an experienced field linguist with endangered languages in eastern Indonesia. She is actively involved in advocacy and international capacity building activities with members of Indigenous communities. Her research interests include the minority languages of the Austronesian and Australian language families, language endangerment, language documentation, and ethnobiology. She has published extensively on the endangered languages of the
Austronesian region. Margaret is a consultant linguist with Terralingua and serves on its Board of Governors, is a co-founder of the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity, and chairs the steering committee
for the International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Margaret has also contributed as an international expert at the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Section Experts' Meetings on the Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Reviews

... a substantial contribution to the field of language documentation and language endangerment ... of wide interest not just to specialists in Austronesian languages, and to those concerned with language documentation and langugage endangerment worldwide. It will prove invaluable and thought-provoking to sociolinguistics across all language families.
*Darrell Tryon, Studies in Language Vol. 35:2*