Living Languages and New Approaches to Language Revitalisation Research - Paperback

by Tonya Stebbins (Author), Kris Eira (Author), Vicki Couzens (Author)

This book advocates for a new model of describing language revitalisation practices and decolonizing the research methods used to study them. It demonstrates how conceptual tools developed from this approach can support efforts to develop deeply collaborative research and highlight the diversity of language revitalisation practice

Author Biography

Tonya N. Stebbins is Associate Professor of Linguistics at La Trobe University. She has two decades of experience with language revitalisation projects in Canada, Papua New Guinea and Australia and experience consulting in Health, Community Services and Education.

Kris Eira is a community-based linguist at the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages who has worked in language revitalisation in southeast Australia for 16 years.

Vicki Couzens is Keerray Woorroong Gunditjmara; Senior Knowledge Holder for Possum Skin Cloak Story and Gunditjmara Mother Tongue. Vicki's contributions in the reclamation, regeneration and revitalisation of cultural knowledge and practices extend across the 'arts and creative cultural expression'. Vicki acknowledges her Ancestors and Elders who guide her in her work.