![]() Zuckermann`s term Revival Linguistics is modelled upon 'Contact Linguistics' ( Do not allow it to die! (2) If your language died -> Stop, revive, survive! (3) If you revive your language -> Embrace the hybridity of the emergent language! Questions of this kind, albeit in an implicit and sometimes confused fashion, are being raised within the context of Australian Aboriginal languages. This article contributes towards the establishment of Revival Linguistics, a new linguistic discipline and paradigm. Mastering them would be useful to endangered languages in general and to Aboriginal linguistic revival in particular. That said, this article proposes that there are linguistic constraints applicable to all revival attempts. #Provue panorama x cost professional#Needless to say, the first stage of any desire by professional linguists to assist in language reawakening must involve a long period of thoroughly observing, carefully listening to the people, learning, mapping and characterizing the specific indigenous community. This article provides comparative insights and makes information about the Hebrew revival accessible to Australian linguists and Aboriginal revival activists. By comparison, language revival movements in Australia are in their infancy. LINK TO THE ARTICLE: Final version: DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2011.532859 Australian Journal of Linguistics (AJL) Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2011, pages 111 - 127 Stop, Revive, Survive: Lessons from the Hebrew Revival Applicable to the Reclamation, Maintenance and Empowerment of Aboriginal Languages and Cultures GHIL‘AD ZUCKERMANN and MICHAEL WALSH University of Adelaide and University of Sydney ABSTRACT The revival of Hebrew is so far the most successful known reclamation of a sleeping tongue and is a language movement that has been in progress for more than 120 years. ‘Stop, Revive, Survive!: Lessons from the Hebrew Revival Applicable to the Reclamation, Maintenance and Empowerment of Aboriginal Languages and Cultures’, Australian Journal of Linguistics 31.1: 111-127. ![]() Zuckermann, Ghil'ad and Walsh, Michael 2011. ![]()
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