Mari C. Jones

Keeping Languages Alive (eBook, ePUB)

Documentation, Pedagogy and Revitalization

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Many of the world's languages have diminishing numbers of speakers and are in danger of falling silent. Around the globe, a large body of linguists are collaborating with members of indigenous communities to keep these languages alive. Mindful that their work will be used by future speech communities to learn, teach and revitalise their languages, scholars face new challenges in the way they gather materials and in the way they present their findings. This volume discusses current efforts to record, collect and archive endangered languages in traditional and new media that will support future language learners and speakers. Chapters are written by academics working in the field of language endangerment and also by indigenous people working 'at the coalface' of language support and maintenance. Keeping Languages Alive is a must-read for researchers in language documentation, language typology and linguistic anthropology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107702745
• Artikelnr.: 52955861

Autorenporträt

Mari C. Jones is Reader in French Linguistics and Language Change at the University of Cambridge and Fellow in Modern and Medieval Languages at Peterhouse, Cambridge. A highly experienced fieldworker, she has published extensively on language obsolescence and revitalisation in relation to Insular and Continental Norman, Welsh and Breton. Her publications include Language Obsolescence and Revitalization (1998), Jersey Norman French (2001) and The Guernsey Norman French Translations of Thomas Martin (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Documentation: 1. Language documentation and meta-documentation
Peter K. Austin; 2. A psycholinguistic assessment of language change in
Eastern Indonesia: evidence from the HALA Project Amanda Hamilton, Jawee
Perla and Laura Robinson; 3. Documentation for endangered sign languages:
the case of Mardin sign language Ulrike Zeshan and Hasan Dikyuva; 4.
Re-imagining documentary linguistics as a revitalisation-driven practice
David Nathan and Meili Fang; 5. Language documentation and community
interests John Henderson; 6. American Indian sign language documentary
linguistic fieldwork and digital archive Jeffrey Davis; 7. Purism in
language documentation and description Michael Riessler and Elena
Karvovskaya; 8. Greek-speaking enclaves in Pontus today: the documentation
and revitalisation of Romeyka Ioanna Sitaridou; Part II. Pedagogy: 9. New
technologies and pedagogy in language revitalisation: the case of Te Reo
M¿ori in Aotearoa/New Zealand Tania Ka'ai, John Moorfield and Muiris Ó
Laoire; 10. Teaching an endangered language in virtual reality Hanna
Outakosko; 11. A nomadic school in Siberia among Evenk reindeer herders
Alexandra Lavrillier; 12. Task-based language teaching practices that
support Salish language revitalisation Arieh Sherris, Tachini Pete, Lynn
Thompson and Erin Haynes; Part IV. Revitalisation: 13. Speakers and
language revitalisation: a case study of Guernesiais (Guernsey) Julia
Sallabank and Yan Marquis; 14. On the revitalisation of a 'treasure
language': the Rama language project of Nicaragua Colette Grinevald and
Bénédicte Pivot; 15. Whistled languages: including Greek in the continuum
of endangerment situations and revitalisation strategies Maria Kouneli,
Julien Meyer and Andrew Nevins; 16. What is revitalisation really about?
Competing language revitalisation movements in Provence James Costa and
Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus; Bibliography; Index.