Keeping languages alive : documentation, pedagogy, and revitalization /
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 commu...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Documentation. Language documentation and meta-documentation / Peter K. Austin
- A psycholinguistic assessment of language change in eastern Indonesia : evidence from the HALA Project / Amanda Hamilton, Jawee Perla and Laura Robinson
- Documentation for endangered sign languages : the case of Mardin sign language / Ulrike Zeshan and Hasan Dikyuva
- Re-imagining documentary linguistics as a revitalisation-driven practice / David Nathan and Meili Fang
- Language documentation and community interests / John Henderson
- American Indian sign language documentary linguistic fieldwork and digital archive / Jeffrey Davis
- Purism in language documentation and description / Michael Riessler and Elena Karvovskaya
- Greek-speaking enclaves in Pontus today : the documentation and revitalisation of Romeyka / Ioanna Sitaridou Pt. 2. Pedagogy. New technologies and pedagogy in language revitalisation : the case of Te Reo Māori in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Tania M. Ka'ai, John C. Moorfield and Muiris Ó Laoire
- Teaching an endangered language in virtual reality / Hanna Outakosko
- A nomadic school in Siberia among Evenk reindeer herders / Alexandra Lavrillier
- Task-based language teaching practices that support Salish language revitalisation / Arieh (Ari) Sherris, Tachini Pete, Lynn E. Thompson and Erin Flynn Haynes
- Pt. 3. Revitalisation. Speakers and language revitalisation : a case study of Guernésiais (Guernsey) / Yan Marquis and Julia Sallabank
- On the revitalisation of a 'treasure language' : the Rama language project of Nicaragua / Colette Grinevald and Bénédicte Pivot
- Whistled languages : including Greek in the continuum of endangerment situations and revitalisation strategies / Maria Kouneli, Julien Meyer and Andrew Nevins
- What is revitalisation really about? Competing language revitalisation movements in Provence / James Costa and Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus.