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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
      Published 1 October 2012
      ISBN-13 9780803243637
      978-0803243637
      ISBN-10 0803243634
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      Sociolinguistics

      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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