Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia

ISBN-13: 9780367594176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 246 str.

Laura Siragusa

Opis

Using the Vepsian Renaissance as an example, this volume brings to the surface a literacy-orality dualism new to the discussion around language revival movements. This book addresses the activists, scholars and policymakers involved and opens a discussion about power and agency in the multiple relational aspects of written and oral practices.

Spis treści

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: field work as a give-and-take phenomenon

Chapter 5. Metaphors of language: independent entity vs. experience of life

Chapter 6. A way to make sense of the world using dialects in villages

Chapter 7. Vepsän kel’ and the city

Chapter 8. Education and the babushka

Conclusion. Revitalizing a heritage language. Towards multimodality and "multispatiality"

O autorze

Laura Siragusa is a linguistic anthropology working within a program on Indigenous Studies at the University of Helsinki. She has co-edited a special issue on Language Sustainability for the Journal Anthropologica, and published miscellaneous articles on Vepsian matters in Sibirica, JEFUL, and Folklore.