Publications

Publication details [#55316]

Schreyer, Christine. 2011. Media, information technology, and language planning: what can endangered language communities learn from created language communities? Current Issues in Language Planning 12 (3) : 403–425.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

artificial language | internet | language maintenance | language planning | language revival

Language as a subject

Languages, Canadian, Aboriginal | Languages, Guinean

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

Discussing the language planning initiatives of endangered speech communities in Canada and Papua New Guinea, this study considers how they could benefit from the examples of the technologically advanced speech communities of Klingon and Na'vi, created for the media, in terms of language stimulation and maintenance.