A sociolinguistic model for electronically mediating language revitalization

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ID11115984
AutoresNaomi Nagy (0000-0002-2895-2447), Jonathan Richard Kasstan (0000-0003-4134-5876), Christiane Dunoyer
Año2025
Volumen101
Número2
Páginase109-e135
Fecha de publicación2025-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/lan.2025.a962906
OpenAlexW4411309961
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas32

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

Linguistics · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Philosophy · Psychology