ORCID Profile
0000-0002-7986-9774
Current Organisation
University of Adelaide
Does something not look right? The information on this page has been harvested from data sources that may not be up to date. We continue to work with information providers to improve coverage and quality. To report an issue, use the Feedback Form.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 15-10-2019
Abstract: Traditional languages are a key element of Indigenous peoples’ identity, cultural expression, autonomy, spiritual and intellectual sovereignty, and wellbeing. While the links between Indigenous language loss and poor mental health have been demonstrated in several settings, little research has sought to identify the potential psychological benefits that may derive from language reclamation. The revival of the Barngarla language on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, offers a unique opportunity to examine whether improvements in mental health and social and emotional wellbeing can occur during and following the language reclamation process. This paper presents findings from 16 semi-structured interviews conducted with Barngarla community members describing their own experienced or observed mental health and wellbeing impacts of language reclamation activities. Aligning with a social and emotional wellbeing framework from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspective, key themes included connection to spirituality and ancestors connection to Country connection to culture connection to community connection to family and kinship connection to mind and emotions and impacts upon identity and cultural pride at an in idual level. These themes will form the foundation of assessment of the impacts of language reclamation in future stages of the project.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2010
Publisher: Akademiai Kiado Zrt.
Date: 12-2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2003
Publisher: Brill
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1163/000000009792497788
Abstract: The aim of this article is to suggest that due to the ubiquitous multiple causation, the revival of a no-longer spoken language is unlikely without cross-fertilization from the revivalists' mother tongue(s). Thus, one should expect revival efforts to result in a language with a hybridic genetic and typological character. The article highlights salient morphological constructions and categories, illustrating the difficulty in determining a single source for the grammar of Israeli, somewhat misleadingly a.k.a. 'Modern Hebrew'. The European impact in these features is apparent inter alia in structure, semantics or productivity. Multiple causation is manifested in the Congruence Principle, according to which if a feature exists in more than one contributing language, it is more likely to persist in the emerging language. Consequently, the reality of linguistic genesis is far more complex than a simple family tree system allows. 'Revived' languages are unlikely to have a single parent. The multisourced nature of Israeli and the role of the Congruence Principle in its genesis have implications for historical linguistics, language planning and the study of language, culture and identity.
Publisher: Monash University
Date: 03-2010
DOI: 10.2104/BC100006
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-11-2012
DOI: 10.1002/9781405198431.WBEAL0705
Abstract: What is language revival? In the narrow sense, which is used in this entry, it means the attempt to reclaim a language that is no longer spoken as a mother tongue, for ex le, Hebrew and Kaurna, the latter being an Aboriginal language in Adelaide, South Australia.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2006
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 07-12-2002
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2012
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2003
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2003
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2014
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2003
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2003
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2003
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 2006
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 22-07-2016
Abstract: How to protect language ersity in the world is a hotly discussed topic in linguistic research. This study investigates the relationship between Tibetan language vitality and language users’ identity in Maketang and Huazangsi Tibetan Autonomy County. On the basis of empirical data, the study suggests that there are no strong, positive correlations between Tibetan language vitality and the speakers’ language identity (or with their language activities and inclinations). However, pragmatic matters constitute an important factor that influences speakers’ activities and inclinations. These findings can be explained by conflicting functions performed by language: language as a communication tool on the one hand, and language as a receptacle of culture on the other. Bilingual (or multilingual) education can fulfill a useful role in balancing these two language functions. As a result of the evidence in this study, we argue that language protection cannot preserve both language vitality and language identity, and that, therefore, language protection should pay more attention to issues of language identity rather than to issues of language vitality.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2003
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2014
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
No related grants have been discovered for Ghil'ad Zuckermann.