Brooklyn College Library LibGuides Home: ANTH 3360: Language Loss: Culture, Politics and Self: Unit 3: How to live with language(s)

Schedule: Unit 3

Oct. 2: Read: Orellana book—Introduction and chapter 1
- Due: Small Assignment #2: What is the value of language? What does it mean to try to save a language? Make a connection to a reading and class discussion.
Oct. 7: Guest speaker—EMILY FAIREY ON STORY MAPS
Oct. 16: Read: Orellana book—Chapters 2 and 3
Oct. 21: Guest speaker— Ross Perlin, Endangered Language Alliance (ELA)
- Look at: Endangered Language Alliance’s website. Watch some videos, read about the languages and people they work with.
Oct. 23: Read: Orellana—Chapters 4 and 5
Oct. 28: Work Day
Oct. 30: Read: Orellana—Chapters 6 and 7
- Due: Small assignment #3: What does Orellana say about the role of kids’ translation in the communities she studied? How does continuing to use their home language help or hinder kids and in what ways? Make sure to refer to the text and our class discussions
Nov. 4: Work Day
Nov. 6: Read: Urla, Jacqueline, Estibaliz Amorrortu, Ane Ortega, and Jone Goirigolzarri 2017.
Nov. 11: Workday
Nov. 13: Read: Shankar, Shalini 2011.
Nov. 18: Work Day
- Due: Small Assignment #4: What do the situations of immigrant/minority languages and so-called endangered languages have in common? How do they differ?
Nov. 20: Read: Bernard C. Perley 2012.
- Anthropology in Practice Profile on Bernard C. Perley.
Nov. 25: Work Day
Nov. 27: Read: TBA
Dec.2: Work Day
Dec. 4: Class presentations
Dec. 9: Class presentations
Dec. 11: Class presentations
- Small Assignment #5: What is the best thing to do with a language that is being used and spoken less that in the past? Reflect on your own projects, our class readings and discussions to try to pose an answer.

Final Research Projects Due

Resources: Unit 3

Translating Childhoods by Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
ISBN: 9780813545233
Publication Date: 2009-05-22
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Endangered Language Alliance
Look at Endangered Language Alliance’s website. Watch some videos, read about the languages and people they work with.
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“Endangered Language Alliance | An Urban Initiative for Endangered Language Research and Conservation.” Accessed July 22, 2019. http://elalliance.org/.
Extra credit: NYU endangered language talk
Attend the talk listed for Nov. 7 by Barbra Meek and then write a brief response to it, linking it explicitly to a class reading and class discussion.

Urla, Jacqueline, Estibaliz Amorrortu, Ane Ortega, and Jone Goirigolzarri 2017 Basque Standardization and the New Speaker
Urla, Jacqueline, Estibaliz Amorrortu, Ane Ortega, and Jone Goirigolzarri 2017 Basque Standardization and the New Speaker. In Standardizing Minority Languages: Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity. Pia Lane, James Costa and Haley De Korne, eds. New York: Routledge, pp. 24-46.
Shankar, Shalini 2011 Style and language
Shankar, Shalini. “Style and Language Use among Youth of the New Immigration: Formations of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in Everyday Practice.” Identities : Global Studies in Culture and Power. 18, no. 6 (2011): 646–71.
Bernard C. Perley 2012
Bernard C. Perley 2012, Zombie Linguistics: Experts, Endangered Languages and the Curse of Undead Voices. Anthropological Forum 22(2): 133–149.