Book review: The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization
- Robbie Felix Penman
Abstract
The volume under review, The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization, is part of the Routledge Handbook in Applied Linguistics series, and is described by the publisher as ‘the first comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement’. In attempting to cover the topic of language revitalization as a whole its scope is indeed broader than most works in the field, and it provides an overview that should be welcome, at this point, given the time elapsed since the last publications of such scope (Hinton & Hale 2001; Grenoble & Whaley 2006). The Handbook is divided into two main sections: ‘Issues of Theory and Practice’ (Part 1) and ‘Regional Perspectives: Decolonizing and Globalizing Language Revitalization’ (Part 2). In the following review, Part 2 is addressed first and in greater detail, since it constitutes the Handbook’s most important and most original contribution to the field of language revitalization.
Keywords: theory and practice, decolonizing, globalizing
How to Cite:
Penman, R., (2019) “Book review: The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization”, Language Documentation and Description 16, 201-205. doi: https://doi.org/10.25894/ldd130
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