[RNLD] PhD on language revitalization

[Brookes, Tim]

Dear Julia, Ghil'ad, and other members of this list:
I'm delighted to hear (as, I'm sure, is David) both your institutions offer
a PhD in language revitalization--a shining and somewhat rare illustration
of the academic world moving beyond studying such issues to the point where
you are equipping your graduates with the capacity to contribute to
valuable change.
Along those lines, I'm in the process of designing a series of children's
games that aim to provide fun while teaching children in
indigenous/minority communities the basics of their own writing systems,
starting with Mro, Marma and Chakma children at three mother-tongue schools
in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh.
I would love to hear from any of the members of this list, your colleagues
or your students, if you have any suggestions--or, indeed, you'd like to
warn me against possible pitfalls, especially if you've had the invaluable
experience of having fallen into them yourselves!
As you'd imagine, the main criteria are that the games:
* involve as little capital expenditure as possible;
* be as durable as possible;
* have sufficient flexibility that the children might adapt them or even
invent their own ways of playing them;
* function in areas where there is no electricity, and
* are sufficiently self-sustaining that they work even if children have
little or no exposure to their own writing system under other everyday
circumstances.
Thanks for your help, and best wishes to you all in your valuable work.
Tim Brookes
Founder, the Endangered Alphabets Project
www.endangeredalphabets.com
https://www.facebook.com/tim.brookes.92

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 5:49 AM, Julia Sallabank <js72 at soas.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear David
>
> You're welcome to apply for a PhD at SOAS, University of London, where we
> specialise in language documentation, description and revitalisation. We
> have some scholarships for PhD or MA+PhD studies: see
> https://www.soas.ac.uk/registry/scholarships/economic-and-social-research-
> council-esrc-studentships.html
>
> For funding for a description-based study see
> http://www.eldp.net/en/apply/grant+types/   (NB ELDP grants cover
> fieldwork costs only, not fees, and exclude language revitalisation).
>
> The deadline for PhD applications for entry in October is 30 June, but if
> you're interested in a scholarship you would have to wait until the
> following academic year.
>
> As with the University of Adelaide, we would expect you to have a
> fully-developed research proposal before applying, but we're happy to
> discuss draft proposals with applicants.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Julia
>
>
> On 19 June 2017 at 08:43, David Valls <davidvalls at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear members,
>>
>>
>> I assisted at the First International Conference on Revitalization of
>> Indigenous and Minoritized Languages in Barcelona.
>>
>>
>> I hold a BA on linguistics (University Barcelona), and a MA on
>> linguistics (University Leiden).
>>
>>
>> As a Catalan native speaker and as linguist I’ve been always very
>> interested in language revitalization, language contact, as well as I'm
>> interested in language description.
>>
>>
>> http://www.academia.edu/23400897/A_grammar_sketch_of_the_Bugis_language
>> <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/7570b458e1d5448948ae3fd44d9a04085a0c72e6?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.edu%2F23400897%2FA_grammar_sketch_of_the_Bugis_language&userId=59615&signature=a71c72f7349444ac>
>>
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-8jwR9Cj68
>> <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/a4a98e8edacaa51d3fe1ef6b8edf811e30e616ae?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7-8jwR9Cj68&userId=59615&signature=a9cec0402b9521c7>
>> (w/ English subtitles)
>>
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCRm6RzxTZ0
>> <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/b6f7f40a5dabb3a51c9b2715837ce9f846655b16?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DsCRm6RzxTZ0&userId=59615&signature=f5642d1dbd454066>
>>  (w/ English subtitles)
>>
>>
>> My aim would be to work, by taking preferably a PhD, on a realistic
>> language revitalization process and project. As a Catalan and linguist I
>> can bring all my experience and expertise.
>>
>>
>> So, I am looking for someone to help me out on this task (i.e. tutor,
>> university, and a comunity willing to recover its language and give it a
>> push).
>>
>>
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> David Valls
>>
>> ​​
>>
>>
>>
>>   <https://mailtrack.io/> Enviat amb Mailtrack
>> <https://mailtrack.io/install?source=signature&lang=ca&referral=davidvalls@gmail.com&idSignature=25>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Julia Sallabank
> Reader in Language Policy and Revitalisation,
> SOAS, University of London,
> London WC1H 0XG, UK
>
> Tel. +44 (0)20 7898 4326 <+44%2020%207898%204326>
>
>
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