Languag revitalization in Russia

[Tania Granadillo]

Hello
I and a colleague, Heidi Orcutt-Gachiri, are editing a volume on the
ethnography of endangered languages.  One of the contributors is russian,
Olga Kazakevich, and she has written about these very issues in both russian
and english. SO this is a good lead to follow and the various references in
her articles.

Tania


On Feb 8, 2008 12:26 AM, James Crippen <jcrippen at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a colleague who is writing her dissertation on Oirat, a
> Mongolic language, at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. I just had a
> long discussion with her about her native language, Kalmyk, and the
> efforts in revitalization both during perestroika and later in the
> post-Soviet era. Having looked around previously for information on
> revitalization in Russia, I was surprised to hear that there was a
> serious revitalization movement that had been going on for so long
> because I have never been able to find any meaninful literature on
> revitalization in Russia, whether written in Russian or another
> language. I've even had comments from Russian linguists that all
> Soviet revitalization efforts were essentially propaganda and were
> never serious.
>
> So I'm asking the list, hoping that some of you may know something
> about revitalization programs in Russia. Have any of you read anything
> on the subject? I can't find references to anything, and don't really
> know where to look.
>
> I'm encouraging her to take time out from her dissertation to write a
> retrospective on her experience in the program as a child and a
> summary of her more recent encounters with the Kalmyk revitalization
> efforts. The political and social situation of the language as she
> describes it seems to be very complex, and information on it would be
> invaluable to people working in revitalization in general.
>
> Thanks,
> James Crippen
>



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Tania Granadillo
tgranadillo at gmail.com
Assistant Professor
Anthropology and Linguistics UWO
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