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Revitalization Lexicography: The Making of the New Tunica Dictionary

Autor Patricia Anderson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 noi 2020
In a linguistic climate that is hyperaware of so-called language death, dictionaries have been touted as stalwarts for language preservation. When wielded by communities undertaking language revitalization, dictionaries can be designed to facilitate reversing language shift and fostering linguistic innovation. Indeed, dictionaries’ reputation as multifunctional reference materials make them adaptable to a wide variety of community needs.

Revitalization Lexicography provides a detailed account of creating a dictionary meant to move a once-sleeping language into a language of active daily use. This unique look under the hood of lexicography in a small community highlights the ways in which the dictionary was intentionally leveraged to shape the Tunica language as it inevitably changes throughout revitalization. Tunica, one of the heritage languages of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Marksville, Louisiana, has been undergoing active revitalization since 2010. The current generation of speakers began learning Tunica, a once-sleeping language, through written documentation. Now enough Tunica speakers to confer amongst themselves when questionable language use arises.

Marrying both the theoretical and the practical aspects that contributed to the Tunica dictionary, this book discusses complex lexicographic tasks in a manner accessible to both academic and community readers. This work is firmly backdropped in a fieldwork approach that centers the community as owners of all aspects of their revitalization project. This book provides concrete and practical considerations for anyone attempting to create a dictionary. Contrasting examples from Tunica and English dictionaries, this book challenges readers to rethink their relationship to dictionaries in general. A must-read for anyone who has ever touched a dictionary.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780816539598
ISBN-10: 0816539596
Pagini: 168
Ilustrații: 2 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: University of Arizona Press
Colecția University of Arizona Press

Notă biografică

Patricia M. Anderson holds a PhD in linguistic anthropology from Tulane University. She is an active member of the Tunica Language Project and head lexicographer of the New Tunica Dictionary. Her research focuses on language revitalization in Native North America and the intersection of language revitalization and technology. She is especially involved in leveraging everyday technology to encourage learner creativity and community empowerment in language revitalization efforts.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
1. Revitalization Lexicography in Action
2. Lexicographic Authority and a Colonial Legacy
3. Planning a Functional Dictionary
4. Making a Dictionary
5. Neologisms and the Dictionary
6. New Tunica Dictionary at Large
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

Revitalization Lexicography illuminates a way of developing dictionaries through collaborative work between academics and communities interested in language revitalization. It is essential reading for anyone starting down the path of creating a dictionary in a collaborative framework, with careful attention to the details that must be attended to and the kind of thought process one goes through in making a myriad of decisions about what it means for something to be a dictionary. It will be of interest to those who want to know more about all that it takes to design a dictionary.”—Keren Rice, University of Toronto

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A unique look under the hood of lexicography in a small community, highlighting how the creation of the Tunica dictionary was intentionally leveraged to shape the revitalization of the Tunica language. It details both the theoretical and the practical aspects that contributed to the Tunica dictionary in manner compelling to readers from all walks of life.