Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization

Leanne Hinton is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and an advisory member of the board of the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival. Leena Huss is Professor Emerita at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Professor II Emerita at The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. Gerald Roche is an anthropologist, and is currently a DECRA research fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

"This impressive collection comprises chapters examining perspectives on language revitalization including its context, players, methods, technology, and relationship to documentation and other disciplines, and chapters on regional perspectives. Authors include learners, curriculum developers, language centre directors, linguists, and others. This is exactly the book needed today. It will be invaluable for all involved in language revitalization from research and practice perspectives. Thank you to the editors for their vision."– Keren Rice, University of Toronto, Canada

• IntroductionLanguage Revitalization as a Growing Field of Study and PracticeLeanne Hinton, Leena Huss and Gerald RochePart 1Issues of Theory and PracticeSection 1.1. Language Revitalization in Context1. "Language is Like Food … ": Links Between Language Revitalization and Health and WellbeingMichael Walsh 2. Language Rights and RevitalizationTove Skutnabb-Kangas3. Community-Based Language Planning: Perspectives from Indigenous Language RevitalizationTeresa L. McCarty4. Reinvigorating Language Policy and Planning for Intergenerational Language RevitalisationJoseph Lo BiancoSection 1.2. The Role of Institutions5. The Role of Organizations in Language RevitalizationSuzanne Gessner, Margaret Florey, Inée Slaughter, and Leanne Hinton6. Training Institutes for Language RevitalizationArienne Dwyer, Ofelia Zepeda, Jordan Lachler, and Janne UnderrinerSection 1.3. Revitalization through Education7. Preschool and School as Sites for Revitalizing Languages with Very Few SpeakersJon Todal8. Higher Education in Indigenous Language RevitalizationWilliam H. Wilson9. Is Revitalization through Education Possible?Nancy H. Hornberger and Haley De KorneSection 1.4. Language Revitalization in the Household10. Kotahi Mano Kaika, Kotahi Mano Wawata – A Thousand Homes, a Thousand Dreams: Permission to Dream AgainHana Merenea O’Regan11. Tolowa Language in the homePyuwa Bommelyn with Ruby TuttleSection 1.5. New Methodologies for Language Learning12. The Master-Apprentice Language Learning ProgramLeanne Hinton, Margaret Florey, Suzanne Gessner and Jacob Manatowa-Bailey13. An Overview of Where Are Your Keys: A Glimpse Inside the Technique ToolboxEvan Gardner and Susanna Ciotti14. The Root Word Method For Building Proficient Second Language Speakers of Polysynthetic Languages: Onkwawén:na Kentyókhwa Adult Mohawk Language Immersion ProgramTehota’kerá:tonh Jeremy Green and Owennatékha Brian Maracle15. Language Nesting in the HomeZalmai ¿¿sw¿li ZahirSection 1.6. Literacy, Language Documentation, and the Internet16. Revitalizing the Cherokee SyllabaryBrad Montgomery-Anderson17. Learning Languages Through ArchivesJustin Spence 18. The Breath of Life Workshops and InstitutesDaryl Baldwin, Leanne Hinton and Gabriela Pérez Báez19. Online dictionaries for language revitalizationAndrew Garrett20. Language Documentation and Language Revitalization: Some Methodological ConsiderationsPeter K. Austin and Julia Sallabank21. Documentary Fieldwork and its Web of ResponsibilitiesNancy C. DorianSection 1.7. Special representations of language22. Hawaiian Medium Theatre and the Language Revitalization Movement: A Means to Reestablishing Mauli Hawai¿iC. M. Kaliko Baker23. A Case for Greater Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Language and Music RevitalizationCatherine Grant24. Revitalization of Whistled LanguagesJulien Meyer25. Endangerment and Revitalization of Sign LanguagesJ. Albert Bickford and Melanie McKay-Cody26. New Speakers of Minority LanguagesBernadette O’RourkePart 2Regional Perspectives: Decolonizing and Globalizing Language RevitalizationIntroductionGerald RocheSection 2.1. Europe27. From the Ashes: Language Revitalization in CornwallJenefer Lowe28. Maintenance and Revitalization of GalloSean Nolan29. Language Revitalization in the Channel IslandsJulia SallabankSection 2.2. Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand30. Language Revitalization in Aotearoa/New ZealandStephen May and Richard Hill31. Language Revival in AustraliaJohn Hobson32. Revitalization of KaurnaRob AmerySection 2.3. The Arctic33. Arctic Indigenous Languages: Vitality and RevitalizationLenore A. Grenoble34. Revitalization of Sámi Languages in Three Nordic Countries: Finland, Norway and SwedenUlla Aikio-Puoskari35. "This Work is Not for Pessimists": Revitalization of Inari Saami LanguageAnnika PasenenSection 2.4. The Americas36. Language Revitalization in Indigenous North AmericaLeanne Hinton and Barbra Meek37. "Carrying on The Word That I Know": Teacher-Community Language Revitalization Collaborations in Indigenous Oaxaca, MexicoLois M. Meyer38. Revitalizing Pipil: The Cuna Nahuat ExperienceJorge E. Lemus39. Language Revalorization in Peruvian Amazonia, Through the Lens of IquitoChristine Beier and Lev MichaelSection 2.5. Asia40. Language Revitalization¿of TibetanGerald Roche and Lugyal Bum41. Supporting and Sustaining Language Vitality in Northern PakistanHenrik Liljegren42. Language Revitalization: The Tai Ahom Language of Northeast IndiaStephen Morey43. Revitalization of Duoxu: A First-hand AccountKaterina Chirkova44. Revitalization of The Ryukyuan LanguagesPatrick Heinrich45. The Revitalization of Nivkh on Sakhalin Ekaterina Gruzdeva and Juha JanhunenSection 2.6. Africa46. Supporting Vital Repertoires, Not Revitalizing LanguagesFriederike Lüpke47. Reclaiming Amazigh in a Time of Devitalization Ahmed KabelConclusionWhat works in Language RevitalizationLeanne Hinton, Leena Huss and Gerald Roche