Consider some issues in maintaining CJ [Fwd: available: Endangered Languages and Literacy]

Sat Oct 28 05:20:38 UTC 2000

Klahowya, tillicums,

Submitted for your consideration, the table of contents of a new volume.  The
titles of the papers suggest many issues relevant to the maintaining of
Chinuk Wawa.

Dave

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Subject: [Li-AmInd] FEL IV Proceedings available: Endangered Languages and
Literacy
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 22:25:25 +0100
From: Nicholas Ostler <nostler at chibcha.demon.co.uk>
To: linguist at unix.tamu.edu,
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The proceedings of the Foundation for Endangered Languages' last conference
in Charlotte, North Carolina, (21-24 September 2000), are now available:

"Endangered Languages and Literacy"
edited by Nicholas Ostler and Blair Rudes
Bath: FEL, 2000
ISBN 0-9538248-2-9

It is an 150-page volume,  handsomely produced, with a keynote
address by Ofelia Zepeda, and the contents look like this:

Endangered Languages and Literacy
    Foundation for Endangered Languages
    Charlotte, North Carolina   -   21-24 September 2000
Index of Authors    5
Index of Languages and Families 7

Section 1   Opening the Book    9
Nicholas Ostler, Blair Rudes    Preface: Endangered Languages and
Literacy.   11
Ofelia Zepeda   Keynote Address: On Native Language Literacy: a
Personal Perspective.   13

Section 2   Literacy from Within    17
Elena Benedicto A Community's Solution to Some Literacy Problems:
    the Mayangna of Nicaragua.  19
Francene Patterson  Pathway to an Acceptable Orthography.   25
Gary Sobbing, Audra Vincent Technology, Literacy and Orality:
    the Case of the Coeur d'Alene Language. 29
R. McKenna Brown    Building a Future for Our Past:
    Contemporary Guatemalan Mayan Literature.   35

Section 3   Choosing an Orthography 41
Neil H. Olsen   The Future of Koho: a Mon-Khmer Language of Vit Nam.   43
Claudia Y. Heinemann-Priest The Applied Linguist in Indian Country:
    Preservation and Revival of the Catawba language.   47
David L. Morse, Thomas M. Tehan How Do You Write Lisu?  53
Mark Sebba  Orthography as Literacy: How Manx was 'Reduced to
Writing'.   63

Section 4   Literacy and Dialect Diversity  71
Tapani Salminen Four Orthographies for Forest Nenets?   73
Blair A. Rudes  When You Choose, Must You Lose?
    Standard Orthography Versus Dialect Diversity.  74
Anne-Marie Baraby   Developing a Standard Orthography for an Oral Language:
    the Innu (Montagnais) Experiment.   78
Thomas Field    Literacy Ideologies and the Future of Gascon.   85

Section 5   Promoting Literacy  91
Patricia Shaw   Perspectives on Literacy in Endangered Language
Revitalization  93
Kristin Denham, Kevin George, Erek Rensink, Jonathan Sarr
    Incorporating Literary Style Prior to Literacy
    in the Elementary Tribal School.    94
Kathleen Tacelosky  Literacy Ability and Practice in Peru: an
Indigenous Account. 99
Carla Paciotto  The Bilingual-Bicultural Literacy Program for the
Tarahumara of Chihuahua.    103
Jiwas Bawan The Prospect of Taiwanese Indigenous language
Instruction in Taiwan:  Looking at a Successful American Indian
Community School    113
Marit Vamarasi  All Literate and Nothing to Read:
    the Problem of the Lack of Written Literature in Rotuman.   119

Section 6   Cautionary Notes    123
Nicholas Ostler Gaulish Literacy: a Dying Glimmer.  125
Ivy Doak, Timothy Montler   Orthography, Lexicography, and
Language Change.    132
Lakhan Gusain   Limitations of Literacy in Bagri.   139
Julia E. Lonergan   Semantic Barriers to Literacy in the Sierra
Tarahumara. 142

Foundation for Endangered Languages: Manifesto  150

Copies are now available, at 18 pounds UK apiece, or US$30 (including
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