FEL XIV: Reversing Language Shift: How to Re-awaken a Language Tradition
Editors: Hywel
Glyn Lewis
& Nicholas Ostler
Content of the Conference Proceedings
Index of Authors | |
Index of Languages | |
Hywel
Glyn Lewis & Nicholas Ostler |
Preface |
Section 1 | Keynotes |
Conchúr Ó Giollagáin | The Eclipse of the First Language Minority Speaker: Deficiencies in Ethnolinguistic Acquisition and its Evasive Discourse |
Jane Simpson | Mother-tongue-medium Education: Lessons from the Australian Backlash |
Glyn Williams | Theoretical Principles of Language Change |
Section 2 | Attitudinal Issues |
Peter J. Keegan, Alison Jones & Gavin T. L. Brown | Indigenous language and culture for mainstream teacher education: students' knowledge and attitudes |
Anthony Jukes | Someone else's job: externalizing responsibility for language maintenance |
Ane
Ortega & Estibaliz Amorrortu |
The attitudes of non-minority language speakers to minority language revitalization: what are non-Basque speakers prepared to do for Basque? |
Section 3 | Government-supported Strategies and Community-initiated Projects |
Kenneth MacKinnon | Growing a new generation of Gaelic speakers: an action plan in response to a Ministerial initiative |
Colm Ó Cinnseala | Language Planning - from Theory to Practice |
Salem Mezhoud | Ideologies of Unification and the Practice of Revitalization. Tamazight saw it all ...or almost. |
Robert Dunbar | Does Scottish Gaelic need a Gàidhealtachd policy? |
Sheri J. Tatsch | Language Revitalization in Northern California : Reports from the Field |
Julia Sallabank | What are the aims of language revitalization? A critical review of the situation in Guernsey (Channel Islands ) |
Section 4 | Teaching-resource Creation for Language Revitalization |
Laura
Berbusse & Mike Clauss |
Lomnak Majol |
Aaron
Waldrip & Mary Walworth |
The Fua Le'o Project: promoting self-publication in Polynesian language |
Section 5 | Language Use and Standards |
Philippa Law | Interacting with the BBC : the maintenance of 'authentic' vs. 'proper' Welsh |
John Hunt Peacock | The Good News and the Bad News about Reviving my Spirit Lake Dakota Nation's Endangered Language |
Gari
Lewis & Jeni Smallwood |
Pobl
Ifanc:Ymbweru er mwyn Gweithredu |
Section 6 | The Role of the Education System in Language Shift and its Reversal |
Nge
Deris Meh & Kayam Fokoue Carole |
Towards a revitalization of Cameroonian languages via formal education |
Everlyn
Oiruria & Beatrice Clayre |
Language Revitalisation and reversing language shift: Special problems in a multi - lingual and Cultural Context - A case of vernacular languages in Kenya |
Section 7 | Language Standardisation |
Jenefer Lowe | Four Spellings and a Strategy |
Section 8 | Intergenerational Transmission |
Seyed
Hadi Mirvahedi & Nima Nasjian |
Is Azeri Going to Live or Leave? A critical study of institutional supports available to Azeri in Tabriz , Iran |
Cassie Smith-Christmas | Language Practices in the Home: Gaelic and Usage over Three Generations |
Olimpia Rasom | Language policy strategies: starting from women a better chance? |
Finale | Foundation for Endangered Languages: Manifesto |