Endangered Languages Beliefs and Ideologies in Language Documentation and Revitalisation

by Austin, Peter K.; Sallabank, Julia

• ISBN13: 9780197265765
• ISBN10: 0197265766
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-11-25
• Publisher: British Academy

Author Biography

Peter K. Austin, Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics, SOAS, University of London,

Julia Sallabank, Senior Lecturer in Language Support and Revitalisation,, SOAS, University of London

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Peter K. Austin and Julia Sallabank
Part 1: Case studies: beliefs and ideologies in endangered language communities
2. Paradoxes of engagement with Irish language community management, practice and ideology, Tadhg O hIfearnain
3. Fluidity in language beliefs: The beliefs of the Kormakiti Maronite Arabic speakers of Cyprus towards their language, Chryso Hadjidemetriou
4. Reflections on the promotion of an endangered language: The case of Ladin women in the Dolomites (Italy), Olimpia Rasom
5. Minority language use in Kven Communities - Language Shift or Revitalisation, Anna-Kaisa Raisanen
6. Going, going, gone? The ideologies and politics of Gamilaraay-Yuwaalaraay endangerment and revitalisation, Peter K. Austin
7. Language shift in an 'importing culture': The cultural logic of the Arapesh roads, Lise Dobrin
Part 2: Language documentation and revitalisation: what and why?
8. Ideologies, beliefs and revitalisation of Guernesiais (Guernsey), Yan Marquis and Julia Sallabank
9. Local language ideologies and their implications for language revitalisation among the Mayangna Indians of Nicaragua's multilingual Caribbean Coast region, Jane Freeland and Eloy Frank Gomez
10. Must we save the language? Children's discourse on language and community in Provencal and Scottish language revitalisation movements, James Costa
11. Revitalising the Maori language?, Jeanette King
12. What are we trying to preserve? Diversity, change, and ideology at the edge of the Cameroonian Grassfields, Pierpaolo Di Carlo and Jeff Good
13. The cost of language mobilisation: Wangkatha language ideologies and Native Title, Jessica Boynton
14. Finding the languages we go looking for, Tonya N. Stebbins
15. Meeting point: Parameters for the study of revival languages, Vicki Couzens and Christina Eira
Part 3: From local to international: Interdisciplinary and international views
16. Conflicting goals, ideologies and beliefs in the field, Lenore A. Grenoble and Simone S. Whitecloud
17. Whose ideology, where and when? Rama (Nicaragua) and Francoprovencal (France) experiences, Colette Grinevald and Michael Bert
18. UN discourse on linguistic diversity and multilingualism: actor analysis, ideological foundations and instrumental functions, Anahit Minasyan
19. Language beliefs and the management of endangered languages, Bernard Spolksy