Revitalising Indigenous Languages: How to Recreate a Lost Generation by Olthuis, Marja-Liisa

Revitalising Indigenous Languages: How to Recreate a Lost Generation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781847698872)

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Revitalising Indigenous Languages: How to Recreate a Lost Generation by Olthuis, Marja-Liisa

Revitalising Indigenous Languages: How to Recreate a Lost Generation

$39.95
Revitalising Indigenous Languages: How to Recreate a Lost Generation by Olthuis, Marja-Liisa

Revitalising Indigenous Languages: How to Recreate a Lost Generation

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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This book offers a language revitalisation method that can be used with Indigenous and minority languages, especially in cases where the native language has been lost among people of a working age. It gives practical examples and a theoretical frame of reference for how to plan, organise and implement an intensive language programme.



Author: Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Suvi Kivelä, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
ISBN-10: 1847698875
ISBN-13: 9781847698872
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2013
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d
By Marja-Liisa Olthuis
By Marja-Liisa Olthuis
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Marja-Liisa Olthuis is University Lecturer at University of Oulu, Finland. Her major interests are the Saami languages, Finnish, language revitalisation, lexicology, second/foreign language teaching and translating.

Suvi Kivelä is a researcher at the Saami Archives in Finland. She has worked as a news broadcaster at YLE, Finland's national public service broadcasting company. She is one of the Complementary Aanaar Saami Language Education graduates.

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (Emerita) has been actively involved with struggles for language rights for five decades. Her research interests include linguistic human rights, linguistic genocide, linguicism (linguistically argued racism), mother-tongue-based multilingual education and the relationship between linguistic and cultural diversity and biodiversity.

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