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Documentation and Revitalisation of Endangered Languages

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Course ID: 09-EL-PIE
Erasmus code / ISCED: (unknown) / (unknown)
Course title: Documentation and Revitalisation of Endangered Languages
Name in Polish: Documentation and Revitalisation of Endangered Languages
Organizational unit: Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures
Course groups: (in Polish) Moodle - przedmioty Szkoły Nauk o Języku i Literaturze
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 3.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
Language: English
Full description:

The course will focus on most aspects of language endangerment: its background, typology, dimension, aspects, course and dynamics, and results - as seen from various perspectives: ecolinguistic, sociolinguistic, ethnolinguistic, language policy, diversity, and language contact/language change theory. The second part of the course will present the best practices and worst-case scenarios in the language revitalisation as well as the relevant theories. The third part will discuss some basic principles and methods in language documentation – as well as some projects on Language Endangerment and Documentation that are currently run at the University of Poznań.

Bibliography:

bley, Mark 2003. Spoken here. Travels among threatened languages. London: Arrow Books.

Amery, Rob 2001. „Language Planning and Language Revival”, Current Issues in Language Planning 2 (2&3): 141-221.

Austin, Peter K. & Jullia Sallabank (eds) 2011. The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages. Cambridge University Press.

Crystal, David 2005. Language Death. Cambridge University Press.

Fishman, Joshua 1991. Reversing Language Shift. Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages. Multilingual Matters.

Fishman, Joshua (ed.) 2001. Can threatened languages be saved? Reversing Language Shift, Revisited: A 21st Century Perspective. Multilingual Matters.

Friedrich, Johannes 1987. Extinct languages. New York: Dorset Press.

Grenoble, Lenore A. & Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.) 1999. Endangered Languages. Current issues and future prospects. Cambridge University Press.

Grenoble, Lenore A. & Lindsay J. Whaley 2006. Saving Languages. An introduction to language revitalization. Cambridge University Press.

Harrison, K. David 2007. When Languages Die. The Extinction of the World’s Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge. Oxford University Press.

Ladefoged, Peter 2006. the disappearing sounds of the world’s languages [CD]. The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project.

Nettle, Daniel & Suzanne Romaine 2000. Vanishing Voices – the extinction of the world’s languages. Oxford University Press.

Nicolaï, Robert 2008. “How languages change and how they adapt: some challenges for the future”, Journal of Language Contact – THEMA 2: 311-330.

Puppel, Stanisław (ed.) 2007. Ochrona języków naturalnych. Poznań: UAM.

Romaine, Suzanne 2002. “The Impact of Language Policy on Endangered Languages”, International Journal on Multilingual Societies 4(2): 194-212.

Romaine, Suzanne 2006. “Planning for the survival of linguistic diversity”, Language Policy 5(4): 443-475.

Tsunoda Tasaku 2006. Language Endangerment and Language Revitalization: An Introduction. Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter.

Classes in period "Academic year 2020/2021, summer semester" (past)

Time span: 2021-03-01 - 2021-09-30
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Classes in period "Academic year 2021/2022, summer semester" (past)

Time span: 2022-02-24 - 2022-09-30
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Classes in period "Academic year 2022/2023, summer semester" (past)

Time span: 2023-02-27 - 2023-09-30
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