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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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Ethnolinguistic Vitality Perceptions and Language Revitalisation in Bashkortostan [PDF]
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2003 After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Russification process has mostly ended in the former Soviet Republics and in the present Russian Federation Republics. In some regions, strong mother tongue revitalisation efforts are witnessed. In this article, the relationship between ethnolinguistic vitality perceptions and the language revitalisation ...
Kutlay Yağmur, Sjaak Kroon
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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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Language Description, Documentation and Revitalisation of Languages in Malaysia
Journal of Modern Languages, 2020 Peter Austin, Stefanie Pillai
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Creating a corpus for Kven, a minority language in Norway
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2022 Language documentation, including the development and use of corpora, is frequently linked to revitalisation. This is also the case for the Kven language, a Finnic minoritised language, traditionally spoken in the two northernmost counties of Norway ...
Pia Lane +3 more
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Giellariššu: Indigenous language revitalisation in the city
Multiethnica: Journal of the Hugo Valentin Centre, 2021 https://doi.org/10.33063/diva ...
Outakoski, Hanna-Máret +1 more
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Introducing a Polynomic Approach in Ryukyuan Language Learning
Languages, 2022 The polynomic model as a model of language codification treats regional and social variation within language as inherently good and does not hierarchise this variation.
Gijs Van der Lubbe
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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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Transatlantic Context for Gaelic Language Revitalisation [PDF]
Studia Celtica Posnaniensia, 2020 AbstractThe notion of the ‘new speaker’, and its salience particularly in relation to minority language sociolinguistics, has become increasingly prevalent in the last decade. The term refers to individuals who have acquired an additional language to high levels of oracy and make frequent use of it in the course of their lives.
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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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