Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia

Informationen zum Autor Laura Siragusa is a linguistic anthropology working within a program on Indigenous Studies at the University of Helsinki. She has co-edited a special issue on Language Sustainability for the Journal Anthropologica, and published miscellaneous articles on Vepsian matters in Sibirica, JEFUL , and Folklore. Zusammenfassung Using the Vepsian Renaissance as an example, this volume brings to the surface a literacy-orality dualism new to the discussion around language revival movements. This book addresses the activists, scholars and policymakers involved and opens a discussion about power and agency in the multiple relational aspects of written and oral practices. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Introduction: revival of a heritage language. A question of literacy and orality Chapter 2. Vepsian representations and language in history Chapter 3. Multilingual Russia: superdiversity meets language revival Chapter 4. Revaluation of language: field work as a give-and-take phenomenon Chapter 5. Metaphors of language: independent entity vs. experience of life Chapter 6. A way to make sense of the world using dialects in villages Chapter 7. Vepsän kel’ and the city Chapter 8. Education and the babushka Conclusion. Revitalizing a heritage language. Towards multimodality and "multispatiality"

Product details

• Authors: Laura Siragusa, Laura (University of Aberdeen Siragusa
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138082564
• ISBN: 978-1-138-08256-4
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology; Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Cultural Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Language: reference & general, Social and cultural history, Language: reference and general, Social and cultural anthropology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics