Models of Language Maintenance and Revitalization
Carol Genetti
http://infield.faculty.linguistics.ucsb.edu/courses/models.html
June 23 - June 27; June 30 - July 3, 1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
McCune Conference Center
Organizer
Carol Genetti
University of California, Santa Barbara
Course Overview
This workshop is designed to showcase a variety of approaches taken by different communities to maintain or revitalize their languages. Each day a presentation will be given by one or more practitioners who will present either a community-oriented approach to language maintenance and revitalization or models and techniques that have been applied in a number of communities. As the presenters represent speech communities from across the world, we hope that this workshop will bring us all to a deeper understanding of the wide range of contexts in which language maintenance and revitalization work is taking place and the importance of that context to a community’s selection of appropriate goals and techniques for the task. To focus the presentations, each presenter has been given a set of questions to consider as they prepare their presentations. These cover a range of issues including literacy, contexts of language use, historical factors leading to language contraction, social organizations, resources, goals, methods, approaches, successes and community organization.
Relevant Links
Schedule of Presentations
The “Models” workshop will be every afternoon from 1:45 to 2:45 and will be followed by refreshments and a short break. The schedule of presenters is given below:
June 23rd Hawaiian
Larry Kimura and Lincoln Wang
June 24th Australian Language Centers
Knut Olawsky
June 25th Ekegusii
Kennedy Bosire and Gladys Getenga
June 26th Seneca
Janine Bowen and Anne Tahamont
June 27th Chumash
Richard Applegate and Nakia Lent
June 30th Manx
Jennifer Kewley-Draskau
July 1st Indonesian training Programs
Margaret Florey
Presentation Slides [PDF]
July 2nd Maori
Te Taka Keegan
July 3rd Breath of Life and Master-Apprentice Programs
Leanne Hinton