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This volume illustrates how language revival movements in Russia and elsewhere have often followed a specific pattern of literacy bias in the promotion of a minority's heritage language, partly neglecting the social and relational aspects of orality. Using the Vepsian Renaissance as an example, this volume brings to the surface a literacy-orality dualism new to the discussion around revival movements. In addition to the more-theoretically oriented scopes, this book addresses all the actors involved in revival movements including activists, scholars and policy-makers, and opens a discussion on literacy and orality, and power and agency in the multiple relational aspects of written and oral practices. This study addresses issues common to language revival movements worldwide and will appeal to researchers of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, education and language policy, and culture studies.

Language revival.

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This volume illustrates how language revival movements in Russia and elsewhere have often followed a specific pattern of literacy bias in the promotion of a minority's heritage language, partly neglecting the social and relational aspects of orality. Using the Vepsian Renaissance as an example, this volume brings to the surface a literacy-orality dualism new to the discussion around revival movements. In addition to the more-theoretically oriented scopes, this book addresses all the actors involved in revival movements including activists, scholars and policy-makers, and opens a discussion on literacy and orality, and power and agency in the multiple relational aspects of written and oral practices. This study addresses issues common to language revival movements worldwide and will appeal to researchers of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, education and language policy, and culture studies.

Language revival.

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Sait-on qu'en moyenne, il meurt environ 25 langues chaque annee ? Dans cent ans, si rien ne change, la moitie de ces langues seront mortes. A la fin du XXIe siecle, il devrait donc en rester 2 500 environ, et sans doute beaucoup moins encore si l'on tient compte d'une acceleration, fort possible, du rythme de disparition. Certes, comme les civilisations, les langues sont mortelles, et le gouffre de l'histoire est assez grand pour toutes. Pourtant, la mort des langues a quelque chose de tout a fait insolite, et d'exaltant quand nous nous en avisons : les langues sont capables de resurrection ! Mais la vigilance s'impose, faute de quoi toutes sont menacees, y compris le francais. C. H. Claude Hagege est medaille d'or du CNRS, et professeur au College de France. Il est, notamment, l'auteur de L'Enfant aux deux langues, Le Francais et les siecles, qui ont ete d'immenses succes.

Language obsolescence. --- Language revival.

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Bilingualism --- Bilingualism. --- Language revival --- Language revival. --- Quechua Indians --- Quechua language --- Languages --- Revival

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Focusing on the Americas-home to 40 to 50 million Indigenous people-this book explores the history and current state of Indigenous language revitalization across this vast region. Complementary chapters on the USA and Canada, and Latin America and the Caribbean, offering a panoramic view while tracing nuanced trajectories of "top down" (official) and "bottom up" (grass roots) language planning and policy initiatives.

Language revival --- Language policy --- Language and culture --- Anthropological linguistics --- Sociolinguistics --- America --- Languages.