ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the first comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement, from the Arctic to the Amazon and across continents. Featuring 47 contributions from a global range of top scholars in the field, the handbook is divided into two parts, the first of which expands on language revitalization issues of theory and practice while the second covers regional perspectives in an effort to globalize and decolonize the field. The collection examines critical issues in language revitalization, including:
- language rights, language and well-being, and language policy;
- language in educational institutions and in the home;
- new methodologies and venues for language learning;
- and the roles of documentation, literacies, and the internet.
The volume also contains chapters on the kinds of language that are less often researched such as the revitalization of music, of whistled languages and sign languages, and how languages change when they are being revitalized. The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the ideal resource for graduate students and researchers working in linguistic anthropology and language revitalization and endangerment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|273 pages
Issues of Theory and Practice
section 1.1|46 pages
Language Revitalization in Context
chapter 1|8 pages
“Language is Like Food … ”
chapter 3|14 pages
Community-Based Language Planning
section 1.2|21 pages
The Role of Institutions
section 1.3|33 pages
Revitalization Through Education
section 1.4|18 pages
Language Revitalization in the Household
chapter 10|8 pages
Kotahi Mano Ka¯ika, Kotahi Mano Wawata—A Thousand Homes, a Thousand Dreams
section 1.5|43 pages
New Methodologies for Language Learning
chapter 14|10 pages
The Root-Word Method for Building Proficient Second-Language Speakers of Polysynthetic Languages
section 1.6|58 pages
Literacy, Language Documentation, and the Internet
chapter 20|9 pages
Language Documentation and Language Revitalization
section 1.7|49 pages
Special Representations of Language
chapter 22|9 pages
Hawaiian Medium Theatre and the Language Revitalization Movement
part 2|228 pages
Regional Perspectives: Decolonizing and Globalizing Language Revitalization
section 2.1|63 pages
Europe
section 2.2|35 pages
Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand
section 2.3|30 pages
The Arctic
chapter 34|9 pages
Revitalization of Sámi Languages in Three Nordic Countries
section 2.4|42 pages
The Americas
chapter 37|11 pages
“Carrying on The Word That I Know”
section 2.5|58 pages
Asia
section 2.6|30 pages
Africa