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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Language revitalization"”.
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Pataxó Hãhãhãe: Race, Indigeneity and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Northeast
… identity and revitalize their heritage language in a state commonly considered to be “the most ‘African’ state in Brazil” (Weinstein 2015:226). Language is central to my approach. I compare the under-documented Hãhãhãe language with the Maxakalí language; explore the possibility that …
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The challenges and risks inherent in Welsh language revitalization and the Cymraeg 2050 Strategic Plan
The new Welsh Language Strategy, Cymraeg 2050 makes dramatic demands upon the resources, infrastructure and policies of Welsh language planning. To bring about the desired increase in Welsh speaker numbers there will need to be a complete rethink of Welsh language policy, and the challenges faced …
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Exploring the potential for native language revitalization in an urban context : language education in Vancouver
This research explores dynamics around Aboriginal language learning and use in Vancouver, British Columbia. With many different First Nations and Aboriginal languages represented in the city, urban Aboriginal language revitalization is complex and challenging. Sixteen research participants talked …
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"""Que No Olviden Su Cultura, Y Tambien El Idioma"": A Case Study of Mayan Literacy Revival in the 'Pan -Maya Culture and Language Revitalization Movement' in Guatemala"
… Mayan literacy revival in the context of a Mayan language and culture revitalization movement occurring in Guatemala. It aspires to follow in the tradition of the New Literacy Studies. The research takes the form of a case study of two communities, Santa Eulalia, Huehuetenango, and San Pedro la …
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WAH WAH ŠIKWA ONŌSIHSAH: NAHKAWĒWIN REVITALIZATION THROUGH LIVED EXPERIENCES
This study explores Nahkawēwin language revitalization. This study draws on the language nest model, which first originated with Maori grandmothers and their grandchildren. In this study, my mother and I created a mini language nest in both of our homes to teach my children the gift of their …
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Tongue -Tied: Sociocultural Change, Language, and Language Ideology Among the Oglala Lakota (Pine Ridge Sioux)
The number of languages spoken in the world declined considerably throughout the 20th century. In the last decade of that period, initiatives to revitalize endangered languages rose dramatically. However, in most cases revitalization initiatives did not halt or significantly slow language loss. In …
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Community perceptions of a Cree immersion program at Cumberland House
This thesis contributes to the literature on language revitalization, a hopeful branch of research that counters the foreboding conclusions of language shift studies. It is based on data collected in May, 1998, at Cumberland House, an Aboriginal community in northeastern Saskatchewan. Fifty-five …
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Language Maintenance and Shift in Sardinia: A Case Study of Sardinian and Italian in Cagliari
… of the accepted timing of inter-generational language shift. The analysis of the data on language use in the family domain and outside the family shows, among the other things, that, although the LCs and their parents seem to use mainly Italian, the context examined is an example of contact …
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Iñupiatun Iñuguġlavut Miqłiqtuvut: Let Us Raise Our Children in Iñupiaq
Iñupiatun Iñuguġlavut Miqłiqtuvut is a language learning guide dedicated to reclaiming the Iñupiaq language in the home. Linguists usually create records primarily for scientific purposes and secondarily for language learning needs. Exceedingly often, linguists write descriptions that are typically …
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KALAMAZOO REVISITED: HERITAGE LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AMONG LATVIANS IN NORTH AMERICA
… investment, and community contact in Heritage Language Learning (HLL), Heritage Language Maintenance (HLM) and identity formation among two groups of North American Latvians. One is made up of 49 teenagers at Gaŗezers language camp in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The other comprises 25 parents, other …
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Indigenous Language Reclamation: The Learners Perspective
… explored the link between learning an Indigenous language and the meanings second language learners attach to their language recovery experiences. The study delves into the factors that motivate, enhance and serve as barriers to individual language revitalization efforts. With the goal of …
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The Development and function of hana keaka (Hawaiian-medium theatre): A tool for the empowering Kanaka Maoli consciousness
… that nearly obliterated the Hawaiian language, religion, cultural practices, forms of art, and the indigenous people of the Hawaiian archipelago, hana keaka faded into the background. However, the cultural renaissance of the 1970’s, specifically the movement to revitalize and …
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Korean immigrants' social practice of heritage language acquisition and maintenance through technology
Studying issues of heritage language (HL) maintenance is gaining more significance than ever as our lives become significantly more complex and dynamic because of frequent migration and the transnational diasporas that such migration creates in its wake. HL maintenance is important in multicultural …
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A Case Study of a Pilot Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) Immersion School on Manitoulin Island
… has attempted to completely erase Indigenous languages in Canada and to replace them with English. However, work is being done to revitalize Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe language). An example of this is the Mnidoo Mnising Anishinaabek Kinoomaage Gamig (MMAK) immersion program on Manitoulin Island, …
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‘Shifting the Landscape’, Indigenous Immersion and Bilingual Education in Mexico:Tosepan Kalnemachtiloyan. Language planning, Buen Vivir, and Representations of indigenous identity in the Sierra de Puebla, Mexico
… often perceived as distant. I examined the language planning within Tosepan Kalnemachtoliyan. Their work for indigenous language revitalization, and their inclusion of indigenous knowledge and values in the curriculum, seem to enable students to 'reframe' their indigenous identity in a …
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"Through the Language of Food: Creating Linguistic and Cultural Value through Basque (Euskara) Semiotics to Market Local Gastronomic Products"
… goods affects the value of this minoritized language, and how these practices and material goods contribute to cultural maintenance and efforts related to language revitalization or normalization. The theoretical framework for this work has informed in-depth considerations of core-periphery …
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Semiotic and Discursive Displays of Tamazight Identity on Facebook: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Revitalization Efforts in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
… by the Tunisian Amazigh community in their language and identity revitalization efforts on Facebook in wake of the 2011 Tunisian Revolution. Drawing on insights from discourse-centered online ethnography (Androutsopoulos, 2008), the frameworks of language iconization, fractal recursivity, …
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Rethinking decreolization: Language contact and change in Louisiana Creole
All languages change. Creoles are no exception. However, do creoles change in the same ways as other languages? Research on language change in creoles has hinged on the notion of decreolization: apparently a ‘special case’ of contact-induced change whereby the creole adverges to the lexifier …
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The Morphosyntax of Deretu Manchu
… or clan. First, this work introduces the Manchu language, community-related information, revitalization, and recent speaker demographics. This information is followed by the Deretu Manchu description itself, comprising a brief introduction to its phonemic inventory and phonology, and a …
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