TY - JOUR
T1 - Language revitalization and identity in social context
T2 - A community-based Athabascan language preservation project in western interior Alaska
AU - Dementi-Leonard, Beth
AU - Gilmore, Perry
PY - 1999/3
Y1 - 1999/3
N2 - This study documents a language planning effort funded by an Administration for Native Americans Grant to the Tanana Chiefs Conference, a regional nonprofit tribal organization. The language revitalization project focuses on western interior Alaska and encompasses five traditional Athabascan languages with few remaining speakers. Project discussions included options for language planning, training activities, and educational program and materials development that would enhance language survival. Three dominant project themes are identified and discussed. They are (1) critique and resistance, (2) self-determination and activism, and (3) collaboration and leadership.
AB - This study documents a language planning effort funded by an Administration for Native Americans Grant to the Tanana Chiefs Conference, a regional nonprofit tribal organization. The language revitalization project focuses on western interior Alaska and encompasses five traditional Athabascan languages with few remaining speakers. Project discussions included options for language planning, training activities, and educational program and materials development that would enhance language survival. Three dominant project themes are identified and discussed. They are (1) critique and resistance, (2) self-determination and activism, and (3) collaboration and leadership.
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U2 - 10.1525/aeq.1999.30.1.37
DO - 10.1525/aeq.1999.30.1.37
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0033239748
VL - 30
SP - 37
EP - 55
JO - Anthropology and Education Quarterly
JF - Anthropology and Education Quarterly
SN - 0161-7761
IS - 1
ER -