Laura Siragusa

Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using the Vepsian Renaissance as an example, this volume brings to the surface a literacy-orality dualism new to the discussion around language revival movements. This book addresses the activists, scholars and policymakers involved and opens a discussion about power and agency in the multiple relational aspects of written and oral practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780367594176
• ISBN-10: 036759417X
• Artikelnr.: 69891219

Autorenporträt

Laura Siragusa is a linguistic anthropology working within a program on Indigenous Studies at the University of Helsinki. She has co-edited a special issue on Language Sustainability for the Journal Anthropologica, and published miscellaneous articles on Vepsian matters in Sibirica, JEFUL , and Folklore.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction: revival of a heritage language. A question of
literacy and orality
Chapter 2. Vepsian representations and language in history
Chapter 3. Multilingual Russia: superdiversity meets language revival
Chapter 4. Revaluation of language: field work as a give-and-take
phenomenon
Chapter 5. Metaphors of language: independent entity vs. experience of life
Chapter 6. A way to make sense of the world using dialects in villages
Chapter 7. Vepsän kel' and the city
Chapter 8. Education and the babushka
Conclusion. Revitalizing a heritage language. Towards multimodality and
"multispatiality"