Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia
This title is published in Open Access with the support of the University of Helsinki. 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 soci...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Routledge
2020
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/311900 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315112459 |
| Summary: | This title is published in Open Access with the support of the University of Helsinki. 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, this volume brings to the surface a literacy-orality dualism new to the discussion around revival movements. In addition to the more-theoretically oriented scopes, this book addresses all the actors involved in revival movements including activists, scholars and policy-makers, and opens a discussion on literacy and orality, and power and agency in the multiple relational aspects of written and oral practices. This study addresses issues common to language revival movements worldwide and will appeal to researchers of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, education and language policy, and culture studies. |
|---|