Daria Boltokova
Biographic Data
| ID | 90635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daria Boltokova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daria |
| FAMILY NAME | Boltokova |
| SIGNATURE | BOLTOKOVA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
World Literacy in Danger, Revisited
Last year at the 2153 conference of the Canadian Anthropology Society, a renowned linguist, Leahcim Suark, urged us to document written languages before they disappear. In his now famous speech, titled, "World Literacy in Danger," Suark brings alarming statistics on the condition of written languages of the world. According to Suark, one written language is lost approximately every two years. By next century, Suark claims, nearly half of the roug…
Kaska Personal Names: Continuity and Change
Kaska personal names are important symbols of identity that draw on diverse cultural practices and beliefs, including an extensive history of interaction with Tlingits. Kaska personal names in the Hudson's Bay Company records reveal continuity between historical and contemporary naming practices and provide evidence that Kaskas were living in their present territories in the early 1840s. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, traders,…
"Will the Real Semi-Speaker Please Stand Up?" Language Vitality, Semi-Speakers, and Problems of Enumeration in the Canadian North
This article reassesses categories used in language revitalisation efforts and critiques some enumeration practices that language activists use to measure language endangerment and vitality. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Dene Tha settlement of Chateh in northwestern Alberta, Canada, I argue that the practices of speaker enumeration are often premised on idealised notions of who counts as an endangered language speaker. Standard methods…
"Will the Real Semi-Speaker Please Stand Up?" Language Vitality, Semi-Speakers, and Problems of Enumeration in the Canadian North
This article reassesses categories used in language revitalisation efforts and critiques some enumeration practices that language activists use to measure language endangerment and vitality. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Dene Tha settlement of Chateh in northwestern Alberta, Canada, I argue that the practices of speaker enumeration are often premised on idealised notions of who counts as an endangered language speaker. Standard methods…
"Will the Real Semi-Speaker Please Stand Up?" Language Vitality, Semi-Speakers, and Problems of Enumeration in the Canadian North
This article reassesses categories used in language revitalisation efforts and critiques some enumeration practices that language activists use to measure language endangerment and vitality. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Dene Tha settlement of Chateh in northwestern Alberta, Canada, I argue that the practices of speaker enumeration are often premised on idealised notions of who counts as an endangered language speaker. Standard methods…
Kaska Personal Names: Continuity and Change
Kaska personal names are important symbols of identity that draw on diverse cultural practices and beliefs, including an extensive history of interaction with Tlingits. Kaska personal names in the Hudson's Bay Company records reveal continuity between historical and contemporary naming practices and provide evidence that Kaskas were living in their present territories in the early 1840s. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, traders,…
World Literacy in Danger, Revisited
Last year at the 2153 conference of the Canadian Anthropology Society, a renowned linguist, Leahcim Suark, urged us to document written languages before they disappear. In his now famous speech, titled, "World Literacy in Danger," Suark brings alarming statistics on the condition of written languages of the world. According to Suark, one written language is lost approximately every two years. By next century, Suark claims, nearly half of the roug…
Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Canadian Identity and History (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Ecology (1 works)