Reflections on public awareness
| dc.contributor.author | Linn, Mary S. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-26T00:03:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-26T00:03:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-12-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this reflection, I repeat Michael Krauss’s 1992 call for linguists of all kinds to be active in creating public awareness of language endangerment, and more importantly at this stage, in motivating global attitudinal changes in support of language diversity. I purposely do not distinguish between academic and non-academic, community and non-community linguists, requiring that we all participate in this call. I distinguish different target publics, namely the endangered or minoritized language community public and the majority language public in terms of message and response. I then briefly outline past and present efforts in varying media that are part of creating awareness and action on a global scale. I focus on integration of media and message, stressing that we must be able to provide a positive vision of a linguistically diverse world and a means for the general public, especially youth, to participate in its creation. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | National Foreign Language Resource Center | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Linn, Mary S.. 2018. Reflections on public awareness. In McDonnell, Bradley, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, and Gary Holton. (Eds.) Reflections on Language Documentation 20 Years after Himmelmann 1998. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication no. 15. [PP 66-74] Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-9973295-3-7 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24809 | |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawai'i Press | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | LD&C Special Publication | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License | |
| dc.subject | public awareness | |
| dc.subject | activism | |
| dc.subject | outreach | |
| dc.title | Reflections on public awareness | |
| prism.endingpage | 11 | |
| prism.startingpage | 1 |
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