Brown, "Endangered Languages & their Literatures"

[David D. Robertson]

[from the LINGUIST List; some of the issues discussed in this book will be
of interest to those who've followed our numerous discussions of (a)
writing system(s) for Chinook Jargon -- Dave]

Title: Endangered Languages and their Literatures

Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: Foundation for Endangered Languages
          http://www.ogmios.org,
  http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Philosophy/CTLL/FEL/

Editor: R  McKenna Brown
Hardback: ISBN: 0953824845, Pages: 156, Price: 18 pounds sterling ($30
 US)
Comment: (including surface postage and packing)

Abstract:

Preface
Endangered Languages and Their Literatures
       R. McKenna Brown

1. Strategies and Resources
       Joel Sherzer
       (Keynote Address: AILLA: Archive of the Indigenous Languages
       of Latin America)
  The Pedagogical and Linguistic Issues Involved in Production of EL
  Materials: A Case Study of Nawat
       Monica Ward
  A Tarahumara-English Computational Semantic Lexicon
       J.E. Lonergan

2. Orthographies
  To the Letter: A Microanalysis of Currently Contested Graphemes in
  the Maya of Yucatan
       Michal Brody
  I Can't Read That Way of Writing:Linguistic and Indigenous
  Systems Clash in the Apache Language Revitalization Movement
       Pamela Innes

3. Proverbs, Metaphor and Poetics
  Re-Kindling Interest in an Endangered Language: A Way Forward for
  Igbo
       Chiroke Asogwa
  If You Play With Fire: Literary Production in Jicarilla Apache
       Jule Gomez de Garcia, Melissa Axelrod, and Jordan Lachler
  Cognitive Metaphor in Language Revitalization
       Jocelyn Ahlers

4. Endangered Languages Literatures and Education
  Literatures for the Semi-Literate: Issues for Emerging Literacies
  in the Kimberly Region of North-Western Australia
       Joseph Blythe & Frances Kofod
  The Role of Educators as Biological, Cultural, and Language
  Exterminators: Teaching for Creativity, Measuring for Conformity

       Norman Thomson Jepkorir Chepyator-Thomson

5. Strategies: Case Studies
  Using Storytelling in Schools to Preserve Endangered Languages
       Alexis Lopez
  On the Steps of Memory: Theater Anthropology as an Instrument for
  Cultural and Linguistic Revitalization in Indigenous Communities of
  the Colombian Amazon
       Giovanna Micarelli Hernán Gomez
  Languages Worth Writing: Endangered Languages of Nepal
       Mary Morgan & Deepa Gurung

6. Oral Literatures: Collection
  La experiencia de recopilar el conocimiento Kuna
       V. Perez Rivera (I. Kungiler)
  The Symbolic Value of Oral Literature for the Revitalization of
  Tawahka
       David R. Margolin, Marcela Carñas, Suyapa Dilworth, and Carmen
       Palacios

7. Oral Literatures: Diffusion
  The Blossoming of Our Ancestors' Words: Oral Tradition Collected
  and Published by Mayan Students
       Andrew E. Liebermann Jacinto de Paz Perez
  Strategies for Promoting Endangered Language Literatures Outside
  Their Local Communities
       Nadine Grimm & Laura Martin

8. Mayan Literature
  Bajo la montana: Women's Stories of la violencia
       Janferie Stone
  Maya Poetics: Renaissance in Continuity      133
       Maria Luz Garcia
  A Tissue of Lies: History versus Myth in the Nature of Time
       Christopher Hadfield

FEL
Foundation for Endangered Languages: Manifesto
155

Lingfield(s):   Anthropological Linguistics,
Ling & Literature,

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)