Endangered Languages: Beliefs and Ideologies in Language Documentation and Revitalization
Endangered Languages: Beliefs and Ideologies in Language Documentation and Revitalization
Märit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics
Senior Lecturer in Language Support and Revitalization,
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Abstract
Over the few past centuries, and the last 65 years in particular, there has been a remarkable reduction in global linguistic diversity, as people abandon minority language varieties and switch to larger, and what they perceive to be more economically, socially and politically powerful, regional or national languages. In addition, governments have been promoting standardised official languages for use in schooling, media, and bureaucracy, often under a rubric of linguistic unity supporting national unity. The last two decades have seen a significant increase in interest in minority languages and language shift, endangerment, and loss, in academia and among language speakers and the wider public. There has also been growing interest from anthropological linguists and sociolinguists in the study of language ideologies and beliefs about languages. This volume brings together chapters on theoretical and practical issues in these two areas, especially the views of linguists and communities about support for and revitalization of endangered languages. The chapters thus go straight to the heart of ideological bases of reactions to language endangerment among those most closely involved, drawing their discussions from case studies of how language ideologies and beliefs affect language practices (and vice versa). Most of the authors conduct collaborative community-based research and take a reflective engagement stance to investigate (potential) clashes in ideological perspectives. This is one of the key theoretical and practical issues in research on endangered languages, and so has important implications for language documentation, support and revitalization, as well as language policy at local, national and international levels.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Part 1 Case Studies: Beliefs and Ideologies in Endangered Language Communities
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Paradoxes of Engagement with Irish Language Community Management, Practice, and Ideology
Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin
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Fluidity in Language Beliefs: The Beliefs of the Kormakiti Maronite Arabic Speakers of Cyprus towards their Language
Chryso Hadjidemetriou
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Reflections on the Promotion of an Endangered Language: The Case of Ladin Women in the Dolomites (Italy)
Olimpia Rasom
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Minority Language Use in Kven Communities: Language Shift or Revitalization?
Anna-Kaisa Räisänen
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Going, Going, Gone? The Ideologies and Politics of Gamilaraay-Yuwaalaraay Endangerment and Revitalization
Peter K. Austin
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Language Shift in an ‘Importing Culture’: The Cultural Logic of the Arapesh Roads
Lise M. Dobrin
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Paradoxes of Engagement with Irish Language Community Management, Practice, and Ideology
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Part 2 Language Documentation and Revitalization: What and Why?
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Ideologies, Beliefs, and Revitalization of Guernesiais (Guernsey)
Yan Marquis andJulia Sallabank
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Local Language Ideologies and Language Revitalization among the Sumu-Mayangna Indians of Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast Region
Jane Freeland and others
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Must We Save the Language? Children’s Discourse on Language and Community in Provençal and Scottish Language Revitalization Movements
James Costa Wilson
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Revitalizing the Māori Language?
Jeanette King
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What Are We Trying to Preserve? Diversity, Change, and Ideology at the Edge of the Cameroonian Grassfields
Pierpaolo Di Carlo andJeff Good
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The Cost of Language Mobilization: Wangkatha Language Ideologies and Native Title
Jessica Boynton
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Finding the Languages We Go Looking For
Tonya N. Stebbins
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Meeting Point: Parameters for the Study of Revival Languages
Vicki Couzens andChristina Eira
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Ideologies, Beliefs, and Revitalization of Guernesiais (Guernsey)
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Part 3 From Local to International: Interdisciplinary and International Views
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Conflicting Goals, Ideologies, and Beliefs in the Field
Lenore A. Grenoble andSimone S. Whitecloud
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Whose Ideology, Where, and When? Rama (Nicaragua) and Francoprovençal (France) Experiences
Colette Grinevald andMichel Bert
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UN Discourse on Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism in the 2000s: Actor Analysis, Ideological Foundations, and Instrumental Functions
Anahit Minasyan
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Language Beliefs and the Management of Endangered Languages
Bernard Spolsky
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Conflicting Goals, Ideologies, and Beliefs in the Field
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End Matter
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