ELL: Re: Literature and endangered languages

[Toni Waho]

Warm greetings from Aotearoa!
I advise you to read Joshua Fishman.

Fishman.J.A.  1976	Bilingual Education: an international sociological
perspective. Rowley:MA: Newbury Housm in Jacques.K.(1991).  pp16-111

1991	Reversing Language Shift; Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of
Assistance to Threatened Languages; Multilingual Matters Ltd, Clevedon,
Philadelphia, Adelaide

2000a	Business as usual for threatened languages, a paper presented to toite
Kupu, Toi te Mana, Toi te Whenua:  Mäori Development in a Global Society,
Massey University.

2000b	The Status Agenda in Corpus Planning, in Language Policy and Pedagogy,
Lambert.R.D. and Shohamy.E. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Philadelphia.

2000c	Can threatened languages be saved; Multilingual Matters Ltd, Clevedon,
Philadelphia, Adelaide

This is his famous GIDS table:

Stages of Reversing Language Shift:
Severity of Intergenerational Dislocation
(read from the bottom up)

1.	Education, work sphere, mass media and governmental operations at higher
and nationwide levels.
2.	Local/regional mass media and governmental services.
3.	The local/regional (i.e. non-neighbourhood) work sphere, both among Xians
and among Yians.
4b.	Public schools for Xish children, offering some instruction via Xish,
but substantially under Yish curricular and staffing control.
4a.	Schools in lieu of compulsory education and substantially under Xish
curricular and staffing control.

			II.  RLS to transcend to diglossia to its attainment

5.	Schools for literary acquisition, for the old and for the young, and not
in lieu of compulsory education.
6.	The intergenerational and demographically concentrated
home-family-neighbourhood-community:  the basis of mother-tongue
transmission.
7	Cultural interaction in Xish primarily involving the community-based older
generation.
8	Reconstructing Xish and adult acquisition of XSL.

			I.  RLS to attain diglossia (assuming prior ideological clarification)

The GIDS scale.  (Fishman:  2000c p466).

All the best.



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-endangered-languages-l at cleo.murdoch.edu.au
[mailto:owner-endangered-languages-l at cleo.murdoch.edu.au]On Behalf Of
deekonda narsingarao
Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2001 04:27
To: endangered-languages-l at cleo.murdoch.edu.au
Subject: Re: ELL: Re: Literature and endangered languages


dear ma'am,
best wishes to attend the festival. i would be glad enough if you could
kindly give the details of it later.

thanking you
deekonda narsinga rao
india.


On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 Julia Sallabank wrote :
> Dear Dennis
>
> I am doing research on Guernesiais (Guernsey Norman
> French), the highly
> endangered native language of Guernsey, Channel Isles.
> Every year there is
> an Eisteddfod, a general cultural festival which
> includes competitions in
> reciting poetry and prose, plays and sketches, etc. in
> guernesiais. There
> are classes for different levels of expertise in the
> langauge. I intend to
> attend this in March 2002 (and possibly enter it in the
> future!). The
> guernesiais part of the festival has grown over the
> last few years and now
> covers two evenings rather than one. As well as the
> recitation of 'classics'
> (poetry and stories written by acknowledged masters), a
> great deal of
> creativity and literacy in the language is engendered
> by the event (this is
> a language which is generally seen as spoken only). It
> is not a tourist
> event; it is held in the winter and is taken very
> seriously by contestants.
>
> However, it is unclear to what extent such events
> actually contribute to
> language revitalization, i.e. to intergenerational use
> in the home.
> I would have thought indirectly, by encouraging pride
> in the native
> language.
>
> Does anybody have any thoughts on this?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Julia Sallabank
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Holt" <dionisio77 at yahoo.com>
> To: <endangered-languages-l at cleo.murdoch.edu.au>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:34 AM
> Subject: ELL: Literature and endangered languages
>
>
> > Dear ELLers,
> >
> > I am interested in information about the use of
> > creative-writing workshops, poetry-festivals, literary
> > contests, and any other kind of literature-oriented
> > events and activities in connection with attempts to
> > revitali
 or to reverse
> > language-shift.
> >
> > Thank you for whatever information you may be able to
> > provide.
> >
> > Dennis Holt
> >
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