FEL IV Proceedings available: Endangered Languages and Literacy

[Nicholas Ostler]

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

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