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Variation and change in language revitalization
The category ‘new speaker’ (NS) has emerged independently in several language-revitalization settings to refer to individuals who acquire the target language outside of the home (O’Rourke et al., 2015).
Rodríguez-Ordoñez, I., Kasstan, J.
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Open Linguistics, 2017 In this article, Tlingit language revitalization is approached through theories of decolonization, critiques of colonialism, and philosophies of liberation.
Geiger William A.
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Das Pommerische in Espírito Santo: ergebnisse und perspektiven einer soziolinguistischen studie
Pandaemonium Germanicum: Revista de Estudos Germanísticos, 2011 The present article deals with aspects of language maintenance and measurement for language revitalization of Pomeranian in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo, based on the sociolinguistic study by Höhmann (2011).
Beate Höhmann +1 more
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Challenges to Language Revitalization: The Efut Perspective [PDF]
, 2023 Efut, a Bantoid language in the Niger-Congo Family, known as Balondo in its ancestral Cameroon homeland, seems to survive on the life support of cultural rituals and Ekpe (‘Leopard’) Society.
Okon, Margaret Mary, Noah, Paulinus
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Evaluating Language Revitalization in Kenya
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2008 As a result of the necessity to revitalize languages that have shown clear signs of endangerment, several proposals have been put forward by various studies (Paulston, 1994; Yamamoto, 1998; Landweer, 1998; Crystal, 2000; Hinton and Hale, 2001; Tsunoda ...
Ogone John Obiero
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A Case for Greater Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Language and Music Revitalization
, 2018 Efforts to revitalize languages are situated within the wider context of efforts to maintain and revitalize intangible expressions of culture more broadly, from music to dance to ritual and ceremonial traditions.
Grant, Catherine
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Orthography Choice in Indigenous Language CALL Courses
Canadian Journal of Applied LinguisticsFor many Indigenous Nations and organizations, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) courses have become an effective means to support Indigenous language revitalization and reclamation (ILR) efforts.
Jackie Dormer +7 more
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The Role of Cultural Instruction in Adult Indigenous Language Learning
Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education, 2023 As one of the Calls to Action by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada, the TRC demanded that the Canadian government fund language revitalization and preservation programs, including language courses at the postsecondary level.
Tessa Troughton
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Recirculating and revitalizing words: Lexical legacies in Native American language preservation
Language Documentation and Description, 2021 While scholars often stress that language consists of much more than words, words may nevertheless be the most salient unit of analysis and action for speakers, learners, and other community members involved in language preservation.
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Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2010 For over two decades now, linguists, educators and anthropologists have directed their efforts at researching about factors that occasion and result from language shift (Trudgill, 1991; Fishman 1991, 2001, Crystal, 2000; Edwards, 1992; Sasse, 1992 ...
Ogone John Obiero
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