1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization
The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the first comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement, from the Arctic to the Amazon and across continents. Featuring 47 contributions from a global range of top scholars in the field, the handbook is divided into two parts, the first of which expands on language revitalization issues of theory and practice while the second covers regional perspectives in an effort to globalize and decolonize the field. The collection examines critical issues in language revitalization, including:
- language rights, language and well-being, and language policy;
- language in educational institutions and in the home;
- new methodologies and venues for language learning;
- and the roles of documentation, literacies, and the internet.
The volume also contains chapters on the kinds of language that are less often researched such as the revitalization of music, of whistled languages and sign languages, and how languages change when they are being revitalized. The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the ideal resource for graduate students and researchers working in linguistic anthropology and language revitalization and endangerment.
Introduction
Language Revitalization as a Growing Field of Study and Practice
Leanne Hinton, Leena Huss and Gerald Roche
Part 1
Issues of Theory and Practice
Section 1.1. Language Revitalization in Context
1. "Language is Like Food … ": Links Between Language Revitalization and Health and Wellbeing
Michael Walsh
2. Language Rights and Revitalization
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
3. Community-Based Language Planning: Perspectives from Indigenous Language Revitalization
Teresa L. McCarty
4. Reinvigorating Language Policy and Planning for Intergenerational Language Revitalisation
Joseph Lo Bianco
Section 1.2. The Role of Institutions
5. The Role of Organizations in Language Revitalization
Suzanne Gessner, Margaret Florey, Inée Slaughter, and Leanne Hinton
6. Training Institutes for Language Revitalization
Arienne Dwyer, Ofelia Zepeda, Jordan Lachler, and Janne Underriner
Section 1.3. Revitalization through Education
7. Preschool and School as Sites for Revitalizing Languages with Very Few Speakers
Jon Todal
8. Higher Education in Indigenous Language Revitalization
William H. Wilson
9. Is Revitalization through Education Possible?
Nancy H. Hornberger and Haley De Korne
Section 1.4. Language Revitalization in the Household
10. Kotahi Mano Kaika, Kotahi Mano Wawata – A Thousand Homes, a Thousand Dreams: Permission to Dream Again
Hana Merenea O’Regan
11. Tolowa Language in the home
Pyuwa Bommelyn with Ruby Tuttle
Section 1.5. New Methodologies for Language Learning
12. The Master-Apprentice Language Learning Program
Leanne Hinton, Margaret Florey, Suzanne Gessner and Jacob Manatowa-Bailey
13. An Overview of Where Are Your Keys: A Glimpse Inside the Technique Toolbox
Evan Gardner and Susanna Ciotti
14. The Root Word Method For Building Proficient Second Language Speakers of Polysynthetic Languages: Onkwawén:na Kentyókhwa Adult Mohawk Language Immersion Program
Tehota’kerá:tonh Jeremy Green and Owennatékha Brian Maracle
15. Language Nesting in the Home
Zalmai ¿¿sw¿li Zahir
Section 1.6. Literacy, Language Documentation, and the Internet
16. Revitalizing the Cherokee Syllabary
Brad Montgomery-Anderson
17. Learning Languages Through Archives
Justin Spence
18. The Breath of Life Workshops and Institutes
Daryl Baldwin, Leanne Hinton and Gabriela Pérez Báez
19. Online dictionaries for language revitalization
Andrew Garrett
20. Language Documentation and Language Revitalization: Some Methodological Considerations
Peter K. Austin and Julia Sallabank
21. Documentary Fieldwork and its Web of Responsibilities
Nancy C. Dorian
Section 1.7. Special representations of language
22. Hawaiian Medium Theatre and the Language Revitalization Movement:
A Means to Reestablishing Mauli Hawai¿i
C. M. Kaliko Baker
23. A Case for Greater Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Language and Music Revitalization
Catherine Grant
24. Revitalization of Whistled Languages
Julien Meyer
25. Endangerment and Revitalization of Sign Languages
J. Albert Bickford and Melanie McKay-Cody
26. New Speakers of Minority Languages
Bernadette O’Rourke
Part 2
Regional Perspectives: Decolonizing and Globalizing Language Revitalization
Introduction
Gerald Roche
Section 2.1. Europe
27. From the Ashes: Language Revitalization in Cornwall
Jenefer Lowe
28. Maintenance and Revitalization of Gallo
Sean Nolan
29. Language Revitalization in the Channel Islands
Julia Sallabank
Section 2.2. Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand
30. Language Revitalization in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Stephen May and Richard Hill
31. Language Revival in Australia
John Hobson
32. Revitalization of Kaurna
Rob Amery
Section 2.3. The Arctic
33. Arctic Indigenous Languages: Vitality and Revitalization
Lenore A. Grenoble
34. Revitalization of Sámi Languages in Three Nordic Countries: Finland, Norway and Sweden
Ulla Aikio-Puoskari
35. "This Work is Not for Pessimists": Revitalization of Inari Saami Language
Annika Pasenen
Section 2.4. The Americas
36. Language Revitalization in Indigenous North America
Leanne Hinton and Barbra Meek
37. "Carrying on The Word That I Know": Teacher-Community Language Revitalization Collaborations in Indigenous Oaxaca, Mexico
Lois M. Meyer
38. Revitalizing Pipil: The Cuna Nahuat Experience
Jorge E. Lemus
39. Language Revalorization in Peruvian Amazonia, Through the Lens of Iquito
Christine Beier and Lev Michael
Section 2.5. Asia
40. Language Revitalization¿of Tibetan
Gerald Roche and Lugyal Bum
41. Supporting and Sustaining Language Vitality in Northern Pakistan
Henrik Liljegren
42. Language Revitalization: The Tai Ahom Language of Northeast India
Stephen Morey
43. Revitalization of Duoxu: A First-hand Account
Katerina Chirkova
44. Revitalization of The Ryukyuan Languages
Patrick Heinrich
45. The Revitalization of Nivkh on Sakhalin
Ekaterina Gruzdeva and Juha Janhunen
Section 2.6. Africa
46. Supporting Vital Repertoires, Not Revitalizing Languages
Friederike Lüpke
47. Reclaiming Amazigh in a Time of Devitalization
Ahmed Kabel
Conclusion
What works in Language Revitalization
Leanne Hinton, Leena Huss and Gerald Roche
Biography
Leanne Hinton is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and an advisory member of the board of the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival.
Leena Huss is Professor Emerita at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Professor II Emerita at The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø.
Gerald Roche is an anthropologist, and is currently a DECRA research fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
"This impressive collection comprises chapters examining perspectives on language revitalization including its context, players, methods, technology, and relationship to documentation and other disciplines, and chapters on regional perspectives. Authors include learners, curriculum developers, language centre directors, linguists, and others. This is exactly the book needed today. It will be invaluable for all involved in language revitalization from research and practice perspectives. Thank you to the editors for their vision."
– Keren Rice, University of Toronto, Canada
