Keeping Languages Alive: Documentation, Pedagogy and Revitalization

Mari C. Jones
Cambridge University Press, 12/12/2019
EAN 9781108790406, ISBN10: 1108790402

Paperback, 284 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Language: English

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.

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 Māori 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.