Language Regeneration in Practice (Language Conference)

NB:  all pages number and concepts refer to McCarty’s text

1.     Prepare answers to the questions on page 91

2.     What are sociohistorical and sociolinguistic profiles?

3.     How does McCarty describe historical circumstances?  Where does she place her focus?  How do you see that reflected in the whole of the text?

4.     How do the five case studies illustrate what McCarty describes as the “universal lesson to be drawn from the project of language revitalization, it must be undertaken and evaluated in terms of locally available resources and locally meaningful goals?”

NB:  The five case studies:

1.     Searching for Our Talk and Finding Ourselves

2.     Wôpanâak Language Reclamation

3.     Advocatesfor Indigenous California Language Survival (MAP)

4.     ‘AhaPānana Leo.  E ola ka’olelo Hawai’i

5.     Harmonizing without Homogenizing:  Puente de Hózhǫ́