Revitalising Indigenous Languages

How to Recreate a Lost Generation
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84769-887-2
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 251 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 409 g

The book tells the story of the Indigenous Aanaar Saami language (around 350 speakers) and cultural revitalisation in Finland. It offers a new language revitalisation method that can be used with Indigenous and minority languages, especially in cases where the native language has been lost among people of a working age. The book gives practical examples as well as a theoretical frame of reference for how to plan, organise and implement an intensive language programme for adults who already have professional training. It is the first time that a process of revitalisation of a very small language has been systematically described from the beginning; it is a small-scale success story. The book finishes with self-reflection and cautious recommendations for Indigenous peoples and minorities who want to revive or revitalise their languages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olthuis, Marja-Liisa

Kivelä, Suvi

Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: How did the CASLE Project Start?

Chapter 3: Aanaar Saami – A Small Saami Language

Chapter 4: The CASLE Revitalisation Method

Chapter 5: CASLE YEAR

Chapter 6: Complementary Aanaar Saami Language Education as a Project – CASLE 2009–2010

Chapter 7: What has CASLE Achieved? What does the Future Hold?

Über Autor(innen)

Olthuis, Marja-Liisa
Marja-Liisa Olthuis is University Lecturer at University of Oulu, Finland. Her major interests are the Saami languages, Finnish, language revitalisation, lexicology, second/foreign language teaching and translating.

Kivelä, Suvi
Suvi Kivelä is a researcher at the Saami Archives in Finland. She has worked as a news broadcaster at YLE, Finland's national public service broadcasting company. She is one of the Complementary Aanaar Saami Language Education graduates.

Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (Emerita) has been actively involved with struggles for language rights for five decades. Her research interests include linguistic human rights, linguistic genocide, linguicism (linguistically argued racism), mother-tongue-based multilingual education and the relationship between linguistic and cultural diversity and biodiversity.