Brent Henderson

List of John Benjamins publications in which Brent Henderson is involved.

Title

Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa

Edited by James Essegbey, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin

This volume brings together a number of important perspectives on language documentation and endangerment in Africa from an international cohort of scholars with vast experience in the field. Offering insights from rural and urban settings throughout the continent, these essays consider topics that… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 17] 2015. vi, 317 pp.

Articles

Essegbey, James, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin 2015 Introduction Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa, Essegbey, James, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article

Henderson, Brent 2015 Out of context: Documenting languages in immigrant and refugee communities Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa, Essegbey, James, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin (eds.), pp. 239–252 | Article

In discussions of language endangerment, language shift and loss due to war and displacement are seldom discussed, and the practice of carrying out documentation projects with displaced populations is often discouraged. This paper argues in favor of doing documentation work with displaced… read more

Rohloff, Peter and Brent Henderson 2015 Development, language revitalization, and culture: The case of the Mayan languages of Guatemala, and their relevance for African languages Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa, Essegbey, James, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin (eds.), pp. 177–194 | Article

Language documentation efforts tend to target the most highly endangered languages. However, language endangerment is a complex phenomenon emerging from social, political and other power imbalances in multilingual language ecologies. Long-term solutions for addressing endangerment must… read more