Prof. Naomi Nagy and co-authors Jonathan R. Kasstan (U of Westminster) and Christiane Dunoyer (Centre d'etudes francoprovençales) have published an article in Language entitled, A sociolinguistic model for electronically mediating language revitalization.
The abstract is below:
We describe #FPGlobal, a digital platform for revitalizing Francoprovençal, a threatened and underdocumented language. This platform connects speakers and learners of Francoprovençal varieties in three European and two North American countries. Its community-developed, sociolinguistically informed, and electronically mediated approach fosters communication that is less likely to trigger essentialist language ideologies common to language endangerment contexts. Early uptake of the platform illustrates how it encourages language users to share multimodal responses to prompts, archives these responses, and develops corpora of speech and text with potential utility for both pedagogy and research. Our participatory framework increases cross-variety and intergenerational language use, introduces Francoprovençal into new domains, fosters a new generation of linguists, and offers data for investigating developing writing systems and variation patterns.
Congratulations, Prof. Nagy!