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SUMMARY:Stop\, Revive\, Survive! --- Towards a New Discipline: Revival Lin
 guistics - Ghil'ad Zuckermann (Adelaide)
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CONTACT:Illan Gonen
DESCRIPTION:Stop\, Revive\, Survive! --- Towards a New Discipline: Revival
  Linguistics\n\nTuesday\, 4 October 2011\n17:00 - 19:00\nLocation: AMES\, 
 Room 8-9\n\nProfessor Ghil’ad Zuckermann (Adelaide\, Shanghai) \n \n\nAB
 STRACT:\n\nThe situation for Australia's Aboriginal languages is grave. Ou
 t of an original number of over 250 known tongues\, only 6% (i.e. 15) are 
 in a healthy condition. This paper proposes to address the problem through
  Revival Linguistics (henceforth\, RL)\, a new linguistic discipline that 
 explores the universal constraints and mechanisms involved in language rec
 lamation\, renewal and revitalization\, and thus complements Documentary L
 inguistics. RL works comparatively\, acting as an epistemological bridge b
 etween parallel revival attempts worldwide (see Zuckermann and Walsh 2011)
 . \n\nThis paper will inter alia analyse the Hebrew revival and apply its 
 lessons to other revivals such as Kaurna\, Ngarrinjeri (South Australia) a
 nd Hawaiian. While the results of RL have considerable research value\, in
 ter alia corresponding with contact and historical linguistics\, one ought
  also to consider them in terms of cost benefit (Mühlhäusler & Damania 2
 004\, Walsh 2008). Besides the deontological justification that indigeneou
 s tongues deserve to be revived in the interests of historical\, humanisti
 c and social justice\, there are numerous utilitarian reasons: the revival
  of sleeping Aboriginal languages can result in personal\, educational and
  economic empowerment amongst peoples who have lost their cultural heritag
 e and intelectual sovereignty\, sometimes resulting in social dysfunction 
 (cf. Sutton 2009\, Johnston et al. 2009). RL therefore contributes to soci
 al reconciliation and improved community health.\n\n\nBRIEF BIO:\n\nProfes
 sor Ghil'ad Zuckermann\, D.Phil. (Oxon.)\, is Chair of Linguistics and End
 angered Languages\, and Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellow
 \, at the University of Adelaide. He is also 'Project 211' Visiting Profes
 sor\, and 'Shanghai Oriental Scholar' Professorial Fellow\, at Shanghai In
 ternational Studies University. Professor Zuckermann is the author of Isra
 elit Safa Yafa (Israeli - A Beautiful Language) (Am Oved\, 2008)\, Languag
 e Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2
 003)\, Revival Linguistics (Oxford University Press\, forthcoming)\, and t
 hree chapters of the Israeli Tingo (Keren\, 2011). He has been Gulbenkian 
 Research Fellow at Churchill College\, Cambridge in 2000-2004\; has taught
  inter alia at The University of Queensland\, University of Cambridge and 
 National University of Singapore\; and has been Research Fellow at the Roc
 kefeller Foundation's Study and Conference Center (Villa Serbelloni\, Bell
 agio\, Italy)\, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology (RCLT) (Institute 
 for Advanced Study\, La Trobe University)\, Harry Ransom Humanities Resear
 ch Center (University of Texas at Austin) and Kokuritu Kokugo Kenkyuuzyo (
 National Language Research Institute\, Tokyo). Further particulars about P
 rofessor Zuckermann are available at the following websites:\n\nhttp://www
 .zuckermann.org/ \n\nhttp://adelaide.academia.edu/zuckermann/\n\nhttp://ww
 w.adelaide.edu.au/directory/ghilad.zuckermann\n\n\n\nPROF. GHIL'AD ZUCKERM
 ANN'S BBC INTERVIEWS WITH STEPHEN FRY (Fry's Planet Word) THIS WEEK:\n\nId
 entity\, Revival and Phoenix-Cuckoo (Phoenicuckoo) Hybridity:\nhttp://www.
 youtube.com/watch?v=YaVf7PD8QUc\n(If unavailable\, please look for the las
 t quarter of the second episode (Identity) of Fry's Planet Word)\n\nThe Po
 litics of Language:\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ksqzk\n\n\n\nCRASS
 H LINK: \nhttp://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1743/
LOCATION:Room 8-9\, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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