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LING 370 Living Language: Resilience and Revitalization in Practice Units: 3.00
This course examines how Indigenous and minority peoples globally are responding to the potential loss of their languages. In addition to the social, political, and economic causes and impacts of language loss, we will examine how diverse groups of people are resisting this loss. Strategies for reclaiming and strengthening languages are analyzed.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite LING 100/6.0 or LING 101/3.0 or LING 102/3.0 or LING 205/3.0 or LLCU 110/3.0.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Critically explain the concepts of language endangerment, loss, revitalization, and reclamation.
- Discuss the implications of language loss for Indigenous and minority communities.
- Describe and evaluate different strategies that linguists, educators, policy makers, and others can use to support language revitalization/reclamation.
- Using examples from contexts of language loss and revitalization, discuss the socially situated nature of language, including the roles of multilingualism, verbal art and practice, language teaching and socialization, and technology.
- Critically discuss and reflect on academic articles and other material with peers.
- Conduct independent research on topics related to language loss/revitalization.