Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia.
This volume illustrates how language revival movements in Russia and elsewhere have often followed a specific pattern of literacy bias in the promotion of a minority's heritage language, partly neglecting the social and relational aspects of orality. Using the Vepsian Renaissance as an example,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Milton, UNITED KINGDOM :
Routledge,
2017.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in linguistic anthropology
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This volume illustrates how language revival movements in Russia and elsewhere have often followed a specific pattern of literacy bias in the promotion of a minority's heritage language, partly neglecting the social and relational aspects of orality. Using the Vepsian Renaissance as an example, this volume brings to the surface a literacy-orality dualism new to the discussion around revival movements. In addition to the more-theoretically oriented scopes, this book addresses all the actors involved in revival movements including activists, scholars and policy-makers, and opens a discussion on literacy and orality, and power and agency in the multiple relational aspects of written and oral practices. This study addresses issues common to language revival movements worldwide and will appeal to researchers of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, education and language policy, and culture studies. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 1351622080 9781351622080 9781351622073 1351622072 9781315112459 1315112450 9781351622066 1351622064 9781138082564 1138082562 |