ELL: FEL IV Proceedings available: Endangered Languages and Literacy

Thu Nov 2 04:48:43 UTC 2000

Nicholas:

I was wondering if you would be interested in trading a copy of the proceedings
for a paperback copy of our new 160 page "Learn in Beauty: Indigenous Education
for a New Century" book? This book is also available free at
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/LIB/LIBconts.html

Jon Reyhner

Nicholas Ostler wrote:

> 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 Vi*t 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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