Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia.

Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia.

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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,...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Siragusa, Laura
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton, UNITED KINGDOM : Routledge, 2017.
Series:Routledge studies in linguistic anthropology.
Subjects:
Anthropological linguistics > Russia, Northwestern.
Heritage language speakers > Russia, Northwestern.
Sociolinguistics > Russia, Northwestern.
Anthropological linguistics.
Heritage language speakers.
Sociolinguistics.
Northwestern Russia.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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