Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond
Autor Ghil'ad Zuckermannen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 iun 2020
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780199812790
ISBN-10: 0199812799
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 231 x 155 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0199812799
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 231 x 155 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
seminal [...] trailblazing
The "brilliance" in the book "is the wide range of detailed knowledge Zuckermann displays. In discussing Modern Israeli Hebrew, he provides numerous examples which reveal not just his full control of the language and of Yiddish and other relevant languages, but an original understanding of the use and history of the items he discusses.
Zuckermann aims to ground Revivalistics in an ethics of wellbeing, and hence a utilitarian case for revival, linked to methodological practices of bottom-up community led but expert-supported, activity [...] Ideological considerations [...] are inextricably bound up in all the processes he discusses, from the secular/religious/national debates related to Hebrew [...] to the linguicide (language killing) and glottophagy (language eating) relations of domination in settler colonial history, both part of an historically extended set of linguistic injustices that colonisation wreaked upon the Indigenous populations of Australia.These two cases, Hebrew and Barngarla, underscore the critical need for historicization of the circumstances of languages weakened by political events and the ideologies that produced those events.
It is a book that very much reflects the author's fascinating and multifaceted journey from his formative works critically analysing his Israeli mother tongue's revival efforts through to his passion and focus on language reclamation and empowerment of Aboriginal languages and culture in Australia. This book speaks strongly to his desire to right the wrongs of the past and bringing what he describes as 'sleeping beauties' back to life. In recounting these intriguing language journeys, Zuckermann explores the 'various moral, aesthetic, psychological, cognitive, and economic benefits of language revival" that encompass "social justice, social harmony, diversity, wellbeing, mental health, and employability'.
Zuckermann offers practical methods for reviving languages...uses humour...Where documentary linguistics puts the language at the centre, Zuckermann posits that revivalistics should put language custodians, its speakers, at its centre.
[A]nybody looking for transdisciplinary ideas of how to study or practically approach an endangered language will find many new and promising ideas in this book... Specialists to the field will be interested in the book...particularly in the detailed accounts of language hybridization in reclaimed Hebrew and in the many research ideas proposed in the second part of the book. Individual chapters can be assigned for reading in classes.
Revivalistics is a masterpiece that is both scholarly and social-minded [...] groundbreaking.
brilliant...better seen as two books
Milestone book
Zuckermann is a polyglot polymath and revivalistics is an ambitious volume
Will be referred to for many years to come
very important
exuberant
A must read for anyone interested in the field of endangered languages and language revival ... a sensitively and brilliantly written work.
To linguists Ghil'ad Zuckermann is already something of a hero. This book shows why. Professor Zuckermann's account of his work with language reclamation and salvation is as fascinating, enthralling and gripping as any great fictional adventure story, but with a purpose and meaning greater and more noble than any Allan Quatermain or Indiana Jones.
In Revivalistics, technically rigorous in content yet approachable in presentation, Ghil'ad Zuckermann mounts a persuasive argument that the language spoken by ordinary Israelis is best thought of as a hybrid. He uses the story of the successful revival of Hebrew to propose how near-extinct Aboriginal languages of Australia can be brought back to life with immeasurable benefit to their traditional owners. With a multitude of the world's languages staring oblivion in the face, this will be a key text for the new discipline that Zuckermann calls revivalistics.
Zuckermann is a polymath as well as a polyglot and Revivalistics is a brilliant study, challenging the conventional wisdom in its field, making good use of comparative material, sparkling with perceptive one-liners and making an eloquent argument for the revival of endangered languages.
Zuckermann gives a linguist's insider view of his native tongue, Hebrew as they now speak it in Israel, including its rollicking humor. He shows how a language could literally 'arise from the dead' but also how different is the task of reviving other languages today.
The "brilliance" in the book "is the wide range of detailed knowledge Zuckermann displays. In discussing Modern Israeli Hebrew, he provides numerous examples which reveal not just his full control of the language and of Yiddish and other relevant languages, but an original understanding of the use and history of the items he discusses.
Zuckermann aims to ground Revivalistics in an ethics of wellbeing, and hence a utilitarian case for revival, linked to methodological practices of bottom-up community led but expert-supported, activity [...] Ideological considerations [...] are inextricably bound up in all the processes he discusses, from the secular/religious/national debates related to Hebrew [...] to the linguicide (language killing) and glottophagy (language eating) relations of domination in settler colonial history, both part of an historically extended set of linguistic injustices that colonisation wreaked upon the Indigenous populations of Australia.These two cases, Hebrew and Barngarla, underscore the critical need for historicization of the circumstances of languages weakened by political events and the ideologies that produced those events.
It is a book that very much reflects the author's fascinating and multifaceted journey from his formative works critically analysing his Israeli mother tongue's revival efforts through to his passion and focus on language reclamation and empowerment of Aboriginal languages and culture in Australia. This book speaks strongly to his desire to right the wrongs of the past and bringing what he describes as 'sleeping beauties' back to life. In recounting these intriguing language journeys, Zuckermann explores the 'various moral, aesthetic, psychological, cognitive, and economic benefits of language revival" that encompass "social justice, social harmony, diversity, wellbeing, mental health, and employability'.
Zuckermann offers practical methods for reviving languages...uses humour...Where documentary linguistics puts the language at the centre, Zuckermann posits that revivalistics should put language custodians, its speakers, at its centre.
[A]nybody looking for transdisciplinary ideas of how to study or practically approach an endangered language will find many new and promising ideas in this book... Specialists to the field will be interested in the book...particularly in the detailed accounts of language hybridization in reclaimed Hebrew and in the many research ideas proposed in the second part of the book. Individual chapters can be assigned for reading in classes.
Revivalistics is a masterpiece that is both scholarly and social-minded [...] groundbreaking.
brilliant...better seen as two books
Milestone book
Zuckermann is a polyglot polymath and revivalistics is an ambitious volume
Will be referred to for many years to come
very important
exuberant
A must read for anyone interested in the field of endangered languages and language revival ... a sensitively and brilliantly written work.
To linguists Ghil'ad Zuckermann is already something of a hero. This book shows why. Professor Zuckermann's account of his work with language reclamation and salvation is as fascinating, enthralling and gripping as any great fictional adventure story, but with a purpose and meaning greater and more noble than any Allan Quatermain or Indiana Jones.
In Revivalistics, technically rigorous in content yet approachable in presentation, Ghil'ad Zuckermann mounts a persuasive argument that the language spoken by ordinary Israelis is best thought of as a hybrid. He uses the story of the successful revival of Hebrew to propose how near-extinct Aboriginal languages of Australia can be brought back to life with immeasurable benefit to their traditional owners. With a multitude of the world's languages staring oblivion in the face, this will be a key text for the new discipline that Zuckermann calls revivalistics.
Zuckermann is a polymath as well as a polyglot and Revivalistics is a brilliant study, challenging the conventional wisdom in its field, making good use of comparative material, sparkling with perceptive one-liners and making an eloquent argument for the revival of endangered languages.
Zuckermann gives a linguist's insider view of his native tongue, Hebrew as they now speak it in Israel, including its rollicking humor. He shows how a language could literally 'arise from the dead' but also how different is the task of reviving other languages today.
Notă biografică
Ghil'ad Zuckermann is Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is a chief investigator in a large research project assessing language revival and mental health, funded by Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council. He is elected fellow of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, board member of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, and President of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies.