Description:
We Are Our Language provides an investigation of language revitalization based on local language renewal efforts. This book reveals the subtle ways in which different conceptions and practices--historical, material, and interactional--can variably affect the state of an indigenous language, and it offers a critical step toward redefining success and achieving revitalization.
Review Quotes:
"A scholarly but personal reflection on language issues faced by the Kaska community in British Columbia. The author, Barbara A. Meek, uses language renewal efforts as a lens through which she pulls into focus the language challenges the community faces as well as some of the reasons those challenges exist. [Meek] also presents ideas for how to move forward."--Spoken First
"This is an important book. Anyone involved in language revitalization would gain a lot by reading it. Original, informative, and well written."--Leanne Hinton, co-author of How to Keep Your Language Alive: A Commonsense Approach to One-on-One Language Learning