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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Language revival"”.
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Elder perspectives: leveraging digital tools in language revival initiatives
… the intergenerational transmitters of ancestral language and Indigenous knowledge. Without language revival initiatives, ancestral languages in FNMI communities are at risk of extinction. Leveraging digital technologies while collaborating with Elders can support revival initiatives. Through …
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Reshaping Nationalist Discourse: Irish Novelists of the Young Free State
… guide, Chapter 4 looks at the importance of the language revival and peasant literature to constructions of Irishness. Drawing on popular peasant autobiographies and Revival literature, the novel, masquerading as autobiography, produces a metadiscourse about Irish identity that shatters the myth …
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Language and the politics of ethnicity: The case of Ukraine
The dissertation focuses on language revival movements and their crucial role in shaping ethnic politics. Such movements have swept through the former Soviet borderlands since the inception of glasnost', and remarkably enough, attesting to the centrality of the language question, the first …
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Modern Spoken Coptic and Community Negotiation of Linguistic Authenticity
<p>The pronunciation of the Coptic language in the liturgies of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria according to the Greco-Bohairic and Old Bohairic pronunciation standards is investigated, together with the sociolinguistic narratives constructed by two Coptic communities surrounding the use …
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In Search of a Single Voice: The Politics of Form, Use and Belief in the Kernewek Language
… Celtic nations - and its unique, revived Celtic language, Kernewek. During the course of the research, work focused upon the role of the language revival movement as a tool for ethnic identification: hardening boundaries, shoring up faltering communities and nationalist purification. However, the …
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"Affirmed from under" : the Irish language education movement in Belfast
… its own education system based on the Irish language. Approximately one thousand children are currently doing their education through the medium of Irish in community-run schools. In addition, adult Irish speakers are building an Irish language infrastructure that creates "social territories" …
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Language recovery of the New South Wales South Coast Aboriginal languages
… years have witnessed an increase in revisiting language descriptions of the ‘sleeping’ traditional languages of south-east Australia from available historic material. The languages of south-east New South Wales have thus far been largely neglected and this thesis fills a gap in the contemporary …
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Language recovery of the New South Wales South Coast Aboriginal languages
… years have witnessed an increase in revisiting language descriptions of the ‘sleeping’ traditional languages of south-east Australia from available historic material. The languages of south-east New South Wales have thus far been largely neglected and this thesis fills a gap in the contemporary …
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Ko te reo Māori te tatau ki te ao: Rautaki reo Māori ki Te Kura Matatini ki Otago
… Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi, 2003; Māori Language Act, 1987). I whakatūria te tari o Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori i te tau 1987 hei māngai mō te reo. I piki ngā tatauranga o te hunga i kōrero i te reo Māori i te tau 1991 ki te tau 1999. Ko tētahi raru, kāore te tatauranga ā-motu i te tau …
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When we speak our languages : ideologies of language loss and revitalization
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. American Studies, 2010