Acknowledgments
Notes on Phoentic Transcription, Transliteration, Native
Orthography, and Translation
Introduction
Chapter One: The Hebrew Reclamation: Myth and Reality
Chapter Two: 'Nother Tongue: Subconscious Cross-Fertilization
between Hebrew and its Revivalists' Mother Tongues
Chapter Three: Defying Religion and Deifying Nationhood: Conscious
Ideological Secularization of Hebrew Terms
Chapter Four: Realistic Prescriptivism: The Hebrew Language Academy
and the Native Speaker
Chapter Five: Shift happens: Tarbutomics, Israeli Culturomics
Chapter Six: 'Stop, Revive, Survive': Revivalistics From the
'Promised Land' to the 'Lucky Country'
Chapter Seven: Talknology in the service of the Barngarla language
reclamation
Chapter Eight: Native Tongue Title: Compensation for Linguicide
Chapter Nine: Our Ancestors are Happy: Language Revival and Mental
Health
References
Ghil'ad Zuckermann is Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages
at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is a chief
investigator in a large research project assessing language revival
and mental health, funded by Australia's National Health and
Medical Research Council. He is elected fellow of the Australian
Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, board
member of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, and President
of
the Australian Association for Jewish Studies.
"This groundbreaking linguistic manuscript is wide-ranging in its
scope. . . . Zuckermann seeks to use the experience of the Hebrew
revival to assist Barngarla, and through Barngarla, other
Australian and global languages, in the process of revival. This is
not the first Aboriginal language to undergo revival, but
Zuckermann's remarkable achievement came at the time, and arguably
assisted in the process, of the recognition of the Barngarla
people's native
title. . . . Revivalistics is a masterpiece that is both scholarly
and social-minded." -- Timothy Haines, The Australian Journal of
Anthropology
"To linguists Ghil'ad Zuckermann is already something of a hero.
This book shows why. Professor Zuckermann's account of his work
with language reclamation and salvation is as fascinating,
enthralling and gripping as any great fictional adventure story,
but with a purpose and meaning greater and more noble than any
Allan Quatermain or Indiana Jones." -- Stephen Fry
"In Revivalistics, technically rigorous in content yet approachable
in presentation, Ghil'ad Zuckermann mounts a persuasive argument
that the language spoken by ordinary Israelis is best thought of as
a hybrid. He uses the story of the successful revival of Hebrew to
propose how near-extinct Aboriginal languages of Australia can be
brought back to life with immeasurable benefit to their traditional
owners. With a multitude of the world's languages
staring oblivion in the face, this will be a key text for the new
discipline that Zuckermann calls revivalistics." -- JM Coetzee
"Zuckermann is a polymath as well as a polyglot and Revivalistics
is a brilliant study, challenging the conventional wisdom in its
field, making good use of comparative material, sparkling with
perceptive one-liners and making an eloquent argument for the
revival of endangered languages." -- Peter Burke, University of
Cambridge
"Zuckermann gives a linguist's insider view of his native tongue,
Hebrew as they now speak it in Israel, including its rollicking
humor. He shows how a language could literally 'arise from the
dead' but also how different is the task of reviving other
languages today." -- Nicholas Ostler, Foundation for Endangered
Languages
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