Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language VarietiesKendall A. King, Natalie Schilling, Lyn Wright Fogle, Jia Jackie Lou, Barbara Soukup In the last three decades the field of endangered and minority languages has evolved rapidly, moving from the initial dire warnings of linguists to a swift increase in the number of organizations, funding programs, and community-based efforts dedicated to documentation, maintenance, and revitalization. Sustaining Linguistic Diversity brings together cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work from leading researchers and practitioners in the field. Together, these contributions provide a state-of-the-art overview of current work in defining, documenting, and developing the world's smaller languages and language varieties. The book begins by grappling with how we define endangerment—how languages and language varieties are best classified, what the implications of such classifications are, and who should have the final say in making them. The contributors then turn to the documentation and description of endangered languages and focus on best practices, methods and goals in documentation, and on current field reports from around the globe. The latter part of the book analyzes current practices in developing endangered languages and dialects and particular language revitalization efforts and outcomes in specific locations. Concluding with critical calls from leading researchers in the field to consider the human lives at stake, Sustaining Linguistic Diversity reminds scholars, researchers, practitioners, and educators that linguistic diversity can only be sustained in a world where diversity in all its forms is valued. |
Contents
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Chapter 2 When Is an Extinct Language Not Extinct? | 23 |
Proposed Metadata and Implementation | 35 |
PART II Documenting | 51 |
Chapter 4 Endangered Language Varieties | 53 |
Chapter 5 The Linguistic Negotiation of Complex Racialized Identities by Black Appalachian Speakers | 67 |
Chapter 8 Endangering Language Vitality through Institutional Development | 113 |
Chapter 9 Scandinavian Minority Language Policies in Transition | 129 |
Chapter 10 Language Development in Eritrea | 145 |
Chapter 11 Indigenous Langiage Policies in Social Practice | 159 |
Chapter 12 Heritage Language Education in the United States | 173 |
Chapter 13 Language Diversity and the Public Interest | 187 |
AFTERWORD | 203 |
Chapter 14 At What Cost? Methods of Language Revival and Protection | 205 |
Chapter 6 Working at 9 to 5 Gaelic | 81 |
Chapter 7 Voice and Biliteracy in Indigenous Language Revitalization | 95 |
PART III Developing | 111 |
Chapter 15 Unendangered Dialects Endangered People | 219 |
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