Defying Maliseet Language Death : Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity in Eastern Canada.

By:

Perley, Bernard C

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (250 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780803238107
080323810X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Defying Maliseet Language Death : Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity in Eastern Canada.DDC classification:

497.34

LOC classification:

PM2135 .Z9 T637 2011

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Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Terminology and Orthography; 1. The Specter of Language Death; Map; 2. "Tipping" toward Maliseet Language Death; 3. Programming Language Maintenance; 4. From Spoken Maliseet to Text; 5. Elementary Language Curriculum and Practice; 6. Death by Suicide; 7. Language and Being in Maliseet Worlds; 8. Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity; Notes; References; Index.

Summary: Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Today, indigenous communities throughout North America are grappling with the dual issues of language loss and revitalization. While many communities are making efforts to bring their traditional languages back through educational programs, for some communities these efforts are not enough or have come too late to stem the tide of language death, which occurs when there are no remaining fluent speakers and the language is no longer used in regular communication. Th.

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Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Today, indigenous communities throughout North America are grappling with the dual issues of language loss and revitalization. While many communities are making efforts to bring their traditional languages back through educational programs, for some communities these efforts are not enough or have come too late to stem the tide of language death, which occurs when there are no remaining fluent speakers and the language is no longer used in regular communication. Th.