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dc.contributor.authorObiero, Ogone J.
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-18T09:17:21Z
dc.date.available2016-07-18T09:17:21Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.njas.helsinki.fi/pdf-files/vol19num4/obiero.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://62.24.102.115:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/140
dc.description.abstractFor over two decades now, linguists, educators and anthropologists have directed their efforts at researching about factors that occasion and result from language shift (Trudgill, 1991; Fishman 1991, 2001, Crystal, 2000; Edwards, 1992; Sasse, 1992; Landweer, 2000; Crawford, 1995; Blair and Freeden, 1995; Dorian, 1981, 1989; Brenzinger et. al. 2003; Paulston, 1994; and Lewis, 2006). However, since the formulation of the Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (GIDS) by Fishman (1991) to guide the assessment of language endangerment or vitality, numerous subsequent conceptual models have tended to focus more on evaluating world languages with respect to their shift rather than their revitalization. Drawing from a chronological overview of some metrics that have been proposed by various researchers together with institutions to guide the evaluation of language vitality or endangerment, and with due regard to some attempts at evaluating language revitalization efforts, this paper seeks to highlight key postulates that could inform efforts at building guidelines with which language revitalization activities may be set-up or examined.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNordic Journal of African Studiesen_US
dc.subjectLanguage vitality indicatorsen_US
dc.subjectlanguage shiften_US
dc.subjectlanguage revitalizationen_US
dc.titleFrom assessing language endangerment or vitality to creating and evaluating language revitalization programmesen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US


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