ABSTRACT The reviewed books comprise an emerging ethnographic literature on endangered language documentation and revitalization in Native North America. Language loss and preservation are pressing concerns for tribal communities, galvanizing activists and researchers to develop classroom curricula and literacy traditions in hopes of producing new speakers. While the reviewed books show that this goal often goes unrealized, we nevertheless read them as grounds for optimism. Even if language revitalization rarely increases the everyday use of particular lexical and grammatical codes, it may succeed in accomplishing another important goal: facilitating indigenous communities’ efforts to create for themselves more meaningful contemporary cultures.

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北美土著语言文档的文化和复兴

摘要评论的书籍包括有关北美原住民的濒危语言文档和复兴的新兴民族志文献。语言的丧失和保存是部落社区的紧迫问题，激励社会活动家和研究人员开发教室课程和识字传统，以期培养新的讲者。尽管经过审查的书籍表明，这一目标通常无法实现，但我们仍将其视为乐观的理由。即使语言振兴很少增加特定词汇和语法代码的日常使用，它也可能成功实现另一个重要目标：促进土著社区为自己创造更有意义的当代文化的努力。