Secrecy and Sustainability: How Concealment and Revelation Shape Vepsian Language Revival

Siragusa, Laura

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“…Research points to the promise of "transformative ecological forces" leading to possible linguistic sustainability outside of formal education. Siragusa's (2017) research on the Vepsian-language revival, for example, finds that students' online messaging practices promote language vitality and hold the potential for inter-generational language transmission. Among other sustaining practices, Vepsian youth use new technologies (i.e., VKontakte, like a Russian Facebook) to include and exclude others based on their language choice for writing on their VKontakte wall.…”

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“…We also see the ways plurilingual university students, for a variety of reasons, will willingly take up regional-language learning, like Swahili in South Africa (Wildsmoth & Conduah, 2014), to advance intercultural communication and integration. Finally, students' use of virtual space to sustain non-dominant languages, as explored in Siragusa's (2017) research on the Vepsian-language revival, highlights the creative capacity to use spaces outside of traditional educational environ ments to sustain language diversity.…”

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Linguistic ecology and multilingual education

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2022

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The fiftieth anniversary of Haugen’s pioneering publication on the ecology of language provides an ideal opportunity to reflect on some of the promising new trends within recent research on multilingual education that centers linguistic ecology. The research explored in this article takes up linguistic ecology as a primary lens to understand a range of linguistic phenomena, particularly in contexts of dynamic change within the focus community. This article highlights three developments within linguistic ecology research over the last fifteen years that reflect the continuing relevance and contributions of this framework for multilingual education: (1) the focus on higher education, (2) translanguaging, and (3) rights and sustainability. The first section provides an overview of the defining aspects of linguistic ecology – its holism and dynamism – as well as foundational aspects of the ecology of language research in education and concludes with prospects for future research.

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Linguistic ecology and multilingual education

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2022

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“…(Choi, 2021, lk 12) Uuringud viitavad "ümberkujundavatele ökoloogiliste jõududele", mille abil võidakse saavutada keeleline jätkusuutlikkus väljaspool formaalset haridust. Siragusa (2017) uurimuses vepsa keele taaselustamise kohta leitakse näiteks, et õpilaste veebisõnumite edastamise tavad edendavad keele elujõulisust ja neil on potentsiaali keele edasiandmiseks põlvkondade vahel. Muude jätkusuutlike tavade seas kasutavad vepsa noored uusi tehnoloogiaid (st VKontakte, Vene sotsiaalmeedia), et kaasata teisi keelevaliku alusel oma VKontakte seinale kirju tama või siis neid välja jätta.…”

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Linguistic ecology and multilingual education

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2022

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Einar Haugeni teedrajava keeleökoloogiat käsitleva teose viiekümnes aastapäev pakub ideaalset võimalust mõtiskleda mõnede uute paljutõotavate suundumuste üle hiljutistes mitmekeelset haridust puudutavates uurimustes, mis keskenduvad keeleökoloogiale. Siinses artiklis vaadeldud uurimustes proovitakse mitmesuguseid keelenähtusi mõista läbi keeleökoloogia prisma, lähtudes eelkõige dünaamilistest muutustest uuritava kogukonna sees. Artiklis keskendutakse keeleökoloogia uurimise kolmele viimase viieteist aasta jooksul väljakujunenud arengusuunale, mis näitavad, kuivõrd suur mõju ja tähendus on sellel raamistikul siiani mitmekeelsele haridusele: 1) keskendumine kõrgharidusele, 2) transkeelsus ning 3) keelelised õigused ja jätkusuutlikkus. Esimeses osas antakse ülevaade keeleökoloogia olemusest – selle terviklikkusest ja dünaamilisusest – ning keeleökoloogia uurimise põhimõtetest haridusvaldkonnas ja lõpetatakse võimalike tuleviku urimissuundadega. Full text

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“…Other times using Vepsian writing enables Veps to subvert socially accepted power relationships. It can, for example, symbolize the reaffirmation of the in-group (i.e., Veps) as opposed to the out-group (i.e., the multiethnic society of Karelia) through the adoption of a secret code (Siragusa 2017). It also provides space for people to express themselves in their heritage language, which was not the case before perestroika and glasnost.…”

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Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia

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2017

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This volume illustrates how language revival movements in Russia and elsewhere have often followed a specific pattern of literacy bias in the promotion of a minority's heritage language, partly neglecting the social and relational aspects of orality. Using the Vepsian Renaissance as an example, this volume brings to the surface a literacy-orality dualism new to the discussion around revival movements. In addition to the more-theoretically oriented scopes, this book addresses all the actors involved in revival movements including activists, scholars, and policy makers, and opens a discussion on literacy and orality, and power and agency in the multiple relational aspects of written and oral practices. This study addresses issues common to language revival movements worldwide and will appeal to researchers of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, education and language policy, and culture studies.Laura Siragusa is a linguistic anthropologist working within a program on Indigenous Studies at the University of Helsinki. She has co-edited a special issue on language sustainability for the journal Anthropologica and published miscellaneous articles on Vepsian matters in Sibirica, JEFUL , and Folklore.

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Secrecy and Sustainability: How Concealment and Revelation Shape Vepsian Language Revival

Cited by 5 publications

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Linguistic ecology and multilingual education

Linguistic ecology and multilingual education

Linguistic ecology and multilingual education

Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia

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