Responses to language endangerment : in honor of Mickey Noonan. new directions in language documentation and language revitalization / / edited by Elena Mihas [and three others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910972396003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 9789027271150; 9027271151
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 pages)
• Collana: Studies in Language Companion Series ; ; 142; Studies in language companion series
• Altri autori (Persone): MihasElena
• Disciplina: 409
• Soggetti: Language and languages; Language obsolescence
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The world's languages in crisis : a 20-year update / Gary F. Simons & M. Paul Lewis -- What can revitalization work teach us about documentation? / Marianne Mithun -- Unanswered questions in language documentation and revitalization : new directions for research and action / Lenore A. Grenoble -- Training as empowering social action : an ethical response to language endangerment / Carol Genetti & Rebekka Siemens -- How to avoid pitfalls in documenting endangered languages / Sarah G. Thomason -- Converb and aspect-marking polysemy in Nar / Kristine Hildebrandt -- Grammatical relations in Mixe and Chimariko : differences and similarities / Carmen Jany -- Having a shinshii/shishii 'master' around makes you speak Japanese! : inadvertent contextualization in gathering Ikema data / Toshihide Nakayama & Tsuyoshi Ono -- Internal and external calls to immigrant language promotion : evaluating the research approach in two cases of community-engaged linguistic research in Eastern North Carolina / Ricard Viñas-De-Puig -- Code-switching in an Erzya-Russian bilingual variety : an 'endangered' transitory phase in a contact situation / Boglárka Janurik -- Colonialism, nationalism and language ; vitality in Azerbaijan / John M. Clifton -- Revitalizing languages through place-based language curriculum : identity through learning / Joana Jansen, Roger Jacob & Janne Underriner -- Remembering ancestral voices : emergent vitalities and the future of indigenous languages / Bernard Perley.
• Sommario/riassunto: Language endangerment is a global tragedy that has prompted a surge in research and advocacy on behalf of those communities whose languages have been diagnosed as endangered. Indigenous languages in the Americas and Australia are the most at risk of becoming extinct by the end of this century. Graded scales from "safe" to "extinct" present diagnostic frames of reference that influence the kinds of approaches toward documentation and revitalization that community activists/advocates and language experts develop and initiate. Those languages deemed "extinct" and/or "severely endangered" are hampered by the prevailing metaphors that unduly constrain possible actions for language vitality. This paper offers a re-conceptualization of the metaphors regarding language endangerment away from "death" and "extinct" to "sleeping" and from documentation toward "emergent vitalities". This is especially critical for indigenous communities living in their ancestral homelands where remembering ancestral voices plays a significant role in possible futures for indigenous languages.