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Offers an ethnographic study by Bernard C. Perley, a member of this First Nation, that examines the role of the Maliseet language and its survival in Maliseet identity processes. Perley examines what is being done to keep the Maliseet language alive, who is actively involved in these processes, and how these two factors combine to promote Maliseet language survival.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Terminology and Orthography
1. The Specter of Language Death
2. "Tipping" toward Maliseet Language Death
3. Programming Language Maintenance
4. From Spoken Maliseet to Text
5. Elementary Language Curriculum and Practice
6. Death by Suicide
7. Language and Being in Maliseet Worlds
8. Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity
Notes
References
Index

Defying Maliseet Language Death

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: 01/11/2011
      ISBN13: 9780803225299, 978-0803225299
      ISBN10: 0803225296
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      Sociolinguistics Social and cultural history Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers an ethnographic study by Bernard C. Perley, a member of this First Nation, that examines the role of the Maliseet language and its survival in Maliseet identity processes. Perley examines what is being done to keep the Maliseet language alive, who is actively involved in these processes, and how these two factors combine to promote Maliseet language survival.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments
      Notes on Terminology and Orthography
      1. The Specter of Language Death
      2. "Tipping" toward Maliseet Language Death
      3. Programming Language Maintenance
      4. From Spoken Maliseet to Text
      5. Elementary Language Curriculum and Practice
      6. Death by Suicide
      7. Language and Being in Maliseet Worlds
      8. Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity
      Notes
      References
      Index

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