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 ; London : Taylor & Francis [2017]
Colección:Routledge studies in linguistic anthropology.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745104406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: revival of a heritage language a question of literacy and orality
  • Vepsian representations and language in history
  • Multilingual Russia: superdiversity meets language revival
  • Revaluation of language: field work as a give-and-take phenomenon
  • Metaphors of language: independent entity vs. experience of life
  • A way to make sense of the world using dialects in villages
  • Vepsän kel' and the city
  • Education and the babushka
  • Conclusion revitalizing a heritage language towards multimodality and "multispatiality".