ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a variety of North American case studies to reflect on the forms and effects of new collaborations between language researchers and indigenous communities, and uses of products that emerge with notions of cultural maintenance and linguistic revitalization in mind. It explores the intercultural dialogical emergence of an interactive media product called CD-ROM Taitaduhaan: Western Mono Ways of Speaking that was designed for an indigenous public by a team that included a native speaker/community member and two UCLA linguistic anthropologists. Against this backdrop of language ideological contact, contention, and syncretism, a collaboration of Western Mono community members and UCLA-based linguistic anthropologists emerged in 1982 with the beginning of the Project. Having established the collaborative production of Taitaduhaan, the Mono participation might prove transformative as the imagined public for this work. Today the North Fork Mono community is considering a suggestion to expand the original product by making it a web-based program hosted on a tribal website.
