John Benjamins Publishing Company
6. Literacy and language instruction
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Abstract
Flathead Salish, a critically endangered language spoken by dwindling numbers of first language speakers from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Montana, USA, is the object of collaborative efforts at language revitalization. Often such efforts rely on traditional categories of language from which to base dictionaries, pedagogical grammars, and language textbooks for heritage learners, both children and adults. Missing from most revitalization efforts is the analysis of conceptual metaphors that could support language and literacy revitalization by supporting the semantic and pragmatic underpinnings of the language and potentially reducing calquing by heritage learners, or at the very least, alerting learns to its occurrences. Consequently, this study fills a gap by describing 19 metaphors, comparing them to English, and illustrating possible task-based language teaching approaches for their use.
Abstract
Flathead Salish, a critically endangered language spoken by dwindling numbers of first language speakers from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Montana, USA, is the object of collaborative efforts at language revitalization. Often such efforts rely on traditional categories of language from which to base dictionaries, pedagogical grammars, and language textbooks for heritage learners, both children and adults. Missing from most revitalization efforts is the analysis of conceptual metaphors that could support language and literacy revitalization by supporting the semantic and pragmatic underpinnings of the language and potentially reducing calquing by heritage learners, or at the very least, alerting learns to its occurrences. Consequently, this study fills a gap by describing 19 metaphors, comparing them to English, and illustrating possible task-based language teaching approaches for their use.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- 1. Introduction 1
- 2. Metaphors we die by 15
- 3. Papua New Guinean sweet talk 37
- 4. Towards a taxonomy of metaphors of a curtailed language 65
- 5. Hot eyes, white stomach 91
- 6. Literacy and language instruction 111
- 7. Idioms and proverbs in Bete language and culture 137
- 8. Receding idioms in West Danish (Jutlandic) 155
- 9. A nation without a language is a nation without heart 175
- Index of conceptual metaphors/metonymies 201
- Subject index 203
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- 1. Introduction 1
- 2. Metaphors we die by 15
- 3. Papua New Guinean sweet talk 37
- 4. Towards a taxonomy of metaphors of a curtailed language 65
- 5. Hot eyes, white stomach 91
- 6. Literacy and language instruction 111
- 7. Idioms and proverbs in Bete language and culture 137
- 8. Receding idioms in West Danish (Jutlandic) 155
- 9. A nation without a language is a nation without heart 175
- Index of conceptual metaphors/metonymies 201
- Subject index 203
