Translation as Language Making in Sign Language Revitalisation [PDF]
VAKKI Publications, 2023 This article highlights the translator's crucial role in the revitalisation of the severely endangered FinlandSwedish Sign Language (FinSSL). By giving voice to professional translators, filling in lexical gaps in FinSSL as part of the translation task,
Maria Andersson-Koski, Lieselott Nordman
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The Irish Language – a Unique Part of Irish Life and Cultural Revitalisation and Protection [PDF]
Relacje Międzykulturowe, 2017 The present paper is devoted to the topic of the Irish language and its relation to Irish identity in the modern world, taking into account crucial aspects of the language’s revitalisation and protection.
Anna Slatinská
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Exploring goals and motivations of Māori heritage language learners [PDF]
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015 Motivations of Māori heritage language learners are explored within this qualitative study. Te reo Māori (the Māori language) is currently classed as endangered (Reedy et al., 2011), which calls for the exploration of the motivational experiences of ...
Awanui Te Huia
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Examining Language Development and Revitalisation Initiatives
Journal of Modern Languages, 2020 This article examines development and revitalisation initiatives for the Bidayuh language, spoken in Sarawak, East Malaysia. Bidayuh has six main variants which are not mutually intelligible.
Patricia Nora Riget +1 more
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Wymysorys revitalisation theatre: identity and community (re)building [PDF]
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThe small town of Wilamowice in southwestern Poland is home to the ethnic group of Vilamovians who speak their own endangered language: Wymysiöeryś. Amateur theatre created by the troupe Ufa fisa has been one of the most important and outwardly visible ...
Justyna Majerska-Sznajder +2 more
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Evaluating the Accessibility of Digital Resources for Nǀuu Language Revitalisation: The Study of Internet and Social Media [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesThe rapid growth of the internet and social media platforms has led to the acceptance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in exploring ICT-based solutions for revitalising indigenous languages, such as the Nǀuu ...
Simphiwe Mlaba +2 more
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Mediating Structures in Sámi Language Revitalisation
Social Inclusion, 2016 The revitalisation of the Sámi languages and support for language domains are central educational measures in the post-assimilation situation in Northern Europe.
Erika Sarivaara, Pigga Keskitalo
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Metaphors of language: the Vepsian ecology challenges an international paradigm [PDF]
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015 At present Veps, a Finno-Ugric minority in north-western Russia, live in three different administrative regions, i.e., the Republic of Karelia, and the Leningrad and Vologda Oblasts.
Laura Siragusa
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Heritage language revitalisation and music
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural DevelopmentIn this introduction to the special issue ‘Heritage Language Revitalisation and Music', we consider how viewing the complex challenge of language precarity through the lens of music and music-making – and related modes of expression culture – reveals new
Begoña Echeverria, Heather Sparling
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Language teacher identity and language acquisition in a South Saami preschool: A narrative inquiry
The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2022 This paper explores language teacher identity (LTI) among three preschool teachers. The focus lies on the preschool teachers’ identities as linguistic role models by means of analysing their own descriptions of language learning, that is, their personal
David Kroik
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