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1 online resource (xvi, 450 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Language revitalization: an overview / Leanne Hinton -- Diversity in local language maintenance and restoration: a reason for optimism / Anna Ash, Jessie Little Doe Fermino, Ken Hale -- Language policy -- Federal language policy and indigenous languages in the United States / Leanne Hinton -- To help assure the survival and continuing vitality of native American languages / Robert D. Arnold -- Language planning / Leanne Hinton -- Introduction to the Pueblo languages / Leanne Hinton -- Native language planning: a pilot process in the Acoma Pueblo Community / Christine P. Sims -- The key to cultural survival: language planning and revitalization in the Pueblo de Cochiti / Regis Pecos, Rebecca Blum-Martinez -- The Navajo language / Ken Hale -- Navajo head start language study / Paul R. Platero -- Maintenace and revitalization of national indigenous languages -- Introduction to revitalization of national indigenous languages / Leanne Hinton -- Introduction to the Welsh language / Leanne Hinton -- Welsh: a European case of language maintenance / Gerald Morgan -- Introduction to the Maori language / Ken Hale -- Te Kohanga Reo: Maori language revitalization / Jeanette King -- An introduction to the Hawaiian language / Leanne Hinton -- The movement to revitalize Hawaiian language and culture / Sam L. No'eau Warner -- Mai Loko Mai O ka 'I'ini: proceeding from a dream: The 'Aha Punana Leo Connection in Hawaiian language revitalization / William H. Wilson, Kauanoe Kamana |
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Immersion -- Teaching methods / Leanne Hinton -- The Karuk language / Leanne Hinton -- Teaching well, learning quickly: communication-based language instruction / Terry Supahan, Sarah E. Supahan -- The Navajo language / Ken Hale -- Tsehootsooidi Olta'gi Dine Bizaad Bihoo'aah: A Navajo immersion program at Fort Defiance, Arizone / Marie Arviso, Wayne Holm -- The master-apprentice language learning program / Leanne Hinton -- Linguistic aspects of language teaching and learning in immersion contexts / Ken Hale -- Literacy -- New writing systems / Leanne Hinton -- An introduction to Paiute / Leanne Hinton, Ken Hale -- Language revitalization in the San Juan Paiute Community and the role of a Paiute Constitution / Pamela Bunte, Robert Franklin -- Media and technology -- Audio-video documentation / Leanne Hinton -- Australian languages / Ken Hale -- Strict locality in local language media: an Australian example / Ken Hale -- The Arapaho language / Ken Hale -- Reflections on the Arapaho language project, or when Bambi spoke Arapaho and other tales of Arapaho language revitalization efforts / Stephen Greymorning -- Irish / Ken Hale -- Continuity and vitality: expanding domains through Irish-language radio / Colleen Cotter -- The mono language / Ken Hale -- On using multimedia in language renewal: observations from making the CD-ROM Taitaduhaan / Paul V. Kroskrity, Jennifer F. Reynolds -- Can the web help save my language? / Laura Buszard-Welcher -- Training -- Training people to teach their language / Leanne Hinton -- Inuttut and Innu-aimun / Ken Hale -- The role of the university in the training of native language teachers: Labrador / Alana Johns, Irene Mazurkewich -- Language of Arizona, Southern California, and Oklahoma / Leanne Hinton -- Indigenous educators as change agents: case studies of two language institutes / Teresa L. McCarthy, Lucille J. Watahomigie, Akira Y. Yamamoto, Ofelia Zepeda -- The navajo language / Ken Hale |
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Promoting advanced Navajo language scholarship / Clay Slate -- Sleeping languages: can they be awakened? / Leanne Hinton -- The use of linguistic archives in language revitalization: the native California language restoration workshop / Leanne Hinton -- The Ohlone languages / Leanne Hinton -- New life for a lost language / Linda Yamane |
| Summary |
With world-wide environmental destruction and globalization of economy, a few languages, especially English, are spreading rapidly in use, while thousands of other languages are disappearing, taking with them important cultural, philosophical and environmental knowledge systems and oral literatures. We all stand to suffer from such a loss, none more so than the communities whose very identity is being threatened by the impending death of their languages. In response to this crisis, indigenous communities around the world have begun to develop a myriad of projects to keep their languages alive. This volume is a set of detailed accounts about the kind of work that is going on now as people struggle for their linguistic survival. It also serves as a manual of effective practices in language revitalization. Following are the key features: 23 case studies of language revitalization in practice, from Native American languages, Australian languages, Maori, Hawaiian, Welsh, Irish, and others, written primarily by authors directly involved in the programs; short introductions situate the languages, to help make the languages more 'real' in the minds of readers; each chapter gives a detailed overview of the various kinds of programs and methods in practice today; introductions and maps for each of the languages represented familiarize the reader with their history, linguistic structure and sociolinguistic features; and, strong representation in authorship and viewpoint of the people and communities whose languages are threatened, gives the readers an inside understanding of the issues involved and the community-internal attitudes toward language loss and revitalization. This book was previously published by Academic Press under ISBN 978-01-23-49354-5 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Language revival.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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Language revival
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hinton, Leanne, editor.
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Hale, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Locke), 1934-2001, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789004261723 |
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9004261729 |
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