Promoting heritage language in Northwest Russia

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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Siragusa, Laura, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, New York ; London, [England] : Routledge 2017.
2018.
Colección:Routledge studies in linguistic anthropology.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421109306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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: Fieldwork as a Give- and- Take Phenomenon
  • chapter 5 Metaphors of Language: Independent Entity Versus Experience of Life
  • chapter 6 A Way to Make Sense of the World Using Dialects in Villages
  • chapter 7 Vepsan kel’ and the City
  • chapter 8 Education and the Babushka.