We Are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community

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Contents List of Illustrations vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xxv 1 Ruptured: Kaska in Context 1 2 Endangered Languages and the Process of Language Revitalization 41 3 Growing Up Endangered 56 4 Manufacturing Legitimate Languages 108 5 “We Are Our Language”: The Political Discourses of Language Endangerment 136 6 From Revitalization to Socialization: Disjuncture and Beyond 155 Appendix A: List of Acronyms 165 Appendix B: Transcription Notation 167 Notes 169 References 177 Index 199 ...