Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP190102413

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP190102413

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Towards sustainable language revival: a Kaurna case study. This project aims to increase understanding of how a language can be successfully reclaimed through a longitudinal study on the reclamation of the Kaurna language of the Adelaide Plains. Reviving Indigenous languages is a key factor in helping restore Indigenous health and well-being, and Kaurna has been a model of language revival initiatives in Australia and internationally. But despite many impressive gains, its story is still one of vulnerability. The current Kaurna movement, with its extensive records, offers a window of opportunity to examine the successes and problems since its last critical appraisal. By examining the means of success and ways of overcoming obstacles and challenges for Kaurna, this project will propose recommendations for Indigenous languages as living, viable languages into the future.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 03-2019

End Date: 12-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $404,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Language Studies | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages | Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education | Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage | Communication Across Languages and Culture |

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