Ethics and Revitalization of Dormant Languages: The Mutsun Language
Language revitalization (either increasing the use of an endangered language or bringing back a language with no speakers) brings up many ethical issues, beginning with whether it is even legitimate to attempt such revitalization. Language communities and linguists must address these issues if revit...
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doaj-d7ae45513bcd43feb4f1218e488436262020-11-24T22:14:33ZengUniversity of Hawai‘i PressLanguage Documentation & Conservation1934-52752007-06-011110125/1727Ethics and Revitalization of Dormant Languages: The Mutsun LanguageNatasha WarnerQuirina LunaLynnika ButlerLanguage revitalization (either increasing the use of an endangered language or bringing back a language with no speakers) brings up many ethical issues, beginning with whether it is even legitimate to attempt such revitalization. Language communities and linguists must address these issues if revitalization is to succeed in any of its goals. In this paper, we discuss the ethical issues we have encountered and the choices we have made about them during revitalization work with the Mutsun language (a dormant Costanoan language of California). We argue that language revitalization is a useful and legitimate application of linguistic knowledge.http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1727ethicslanguage revitalizationDormant languagesMutsun |
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Natasha Warner Quirina Luna Lynnika Butler Ethics and Revitalization of Dormant Languages: The Mutsun Language Language Documentation & Conservation ethics language revitalization Dormant languages Mutsun |
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Natasha Warner Quirina Luna Lynnika Butler |
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Natasha Warner |
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Ethics and Revitalization of Dormant Languages: The Mutsun Language |
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Ethics and Revitalization of Dormant Languages: The Mutsun Language |
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Ethics and Revitalization of Dormant Languages: The Mutsun Language |
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Ethics and Revitalization of Dormant Languages: The Mutsun Language |
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Ethics and Revitalization of Dormant Languages: The Mutsun Language |
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ethics and revitalization of dormant languages: the mutsun language |
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University of Hawai‘i Press |
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Language Documentation & Conservation |
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1934-5275 |
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2007-06-01 |
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Language revitalization (either increasing the use of an endangered language or bringing back a language with no speakers) brings up many ethical issues, beginning with whether it is even legitimate to attempt such revitalization. Language communities and linguists must address these issues if revitalization is to succeed in any of its goals. In this paper, we discuss the ethical issues we have encountered and the choices we have made about them during revitalization work with the Mutsun language (a dormant Costanoan language of California). We argue that language revitalization is a useful and legitimate application of linguistic knowledge. |
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ethics language revitalization Dormant languages Mutsun |
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