Christine Schreyer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 134192 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Christine Schreyer |
| PRENOMES | Christine |
| SOBRENOME | Schreyer |
| ASSINATURA | SCHREYER C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8062-059X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
A Proto-Human Language
This paper investigates whether or not linguistics can be used to uncover the origins of human language for anatomically modern humans through an examination of proto-language studies. Specifically, this paper examines whether it is possible to determine a proto-language for all modern human languages. A review of comparative linguistics, including the challenges with this mode of study in deep-time, as well as genetic evidence is included to det…
Uncertainty in diversity
Since independence in 1975, Papua New Guinea, the most linguistically diverse country in the world, has had both unofficial and official policies of mother-tongue education. However, limited resources and support for mother-tongue education has led communities to incorporate bottom-up language planning as well. In particular, this paper examines the language planning efforts of the Kala Language Committee (KLC). The Kala language, which has four …
The risk of ‘taking urgent steps’
In this introduction, we offer an overview of the topics of language risk, language choice, and language rights in relation to linguistic diversity. We situate this discussion around the recent International Year of Indigenous Languages (2019) and the upcoming International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022–2032). In particular, we consider how the decade’s desire to ‘take urgent steps’ to prevent language loss, might take place on the ground,…
Constructed Languages
Constructed languages, also known as conlangs, are languages that have been purposefully created for either real-world or fictional speakers. Within this article, I provide a summary of the language creation process and how the community of conlangers, people who make languages, come to know each other's work, as well as how language creation assignments are being adopted within university classrooms. I also explore the role of the language creat…
Language and Creativity
Fictional languages are a type of artificial language known as a constructed language. They, and their writing systems, are developed in association with fictional works including literature, television, and film to bring a sense of authenticity to the fictional world. The fictional languages also act to help add a realistic element to the sociolinguistic aspects of the world, as dialects of a language may be used to illustrate social standing. F…
Artificial Languages
Artificial languages are languages that are developed by an individual or a group for a specific purpose, usually international communication or for linguistic experimentation. Artificial languages can also be known as constructed languages. Artificial languages that are developed as a language for international communication are also known as international auxiliary languages and one of the most popular ones of these is Esperanto. Artificial lan…
The Joy of Dialects
Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages
Taku River Tlingit Genres of Place as Performatives of Stewardship
This paper examines how the members of the Taku River Tlingit First Nation are using genres of place such as place names, maps, land policies, and language curricula as performatives of stewardship. Within the political context in Canada, negotiations over land, such as the land claims process, have become prioritized over negotiations over language use, resulting in an ideology where land has often become iconic of First Nation identity. For the…
Community consensus and social identity in alphabet development
In the Huon Gulf area of Papua New Guinea, the indigenous language Jabêm was one of the languages of first contact for Lutheran German Missionaries, circa 1900. As a result, Jabêm became a language of the church and, later, a language of education. In both domains, written materials were commonly produced and generations of children were schooled in Jabêm rather than their own mother tongues. This paper discusses the relationship between Jabêm an…
Canadian Geography as National Identity
The fur trade has a distinctive place in the collective memory of Canadian society, influencing national identity in many ways. Specifically, the fur trade has helped to shape the geography of Canada, which is filled with locales that retain the labels “fort,” “post,” “house,” and “factory.” This paper will discuss the Hudson’s Bay Company’s 1928 call for the collection of Aboriginal place names for “all the posts of the country” and will examine…
Înîhiyawîtwâw 'They Are Speaking Cree
In this article, we consider the status of Northern Cree, commonly considered a sub-dialect of Plains Cree. Although northern Alberta, where Northern Cree is spoken, is home to thousands of Cree speakers, the sub-dialect's characteristics and dynamics are understudied. Based on our Cree language training since 2000 and our fieldwork since 1996, we provide new data on Northern Cree and on Cree language use and issues in northern Alberta. We elucid…
U.W.O.A.S. Symposium Abstracts 2003
This paper uses information from the 1906 James Bay Treaty 9 paylists from Chapleau, as well as information acquired in interviews with elders to examine the social history and social geography of the Chapleau Cree "First Nation who migrated from Moose Factory to Chapleau at the turn of the 20th Century
A Proto-Human Language
Media, information technology, and language planning
The languages of Klingon and Na'vi, both created for media, are also languages that have garnered much media attention throughout the course of their existence. Speakers of these languages also utilize social media and information technologies, specifically websites, in order to learn the languages and then put them into practice. While teaching a course on ‘Pidgins, Creoles, and Created Languages’, I realized that endangered language communities…
Nehiyawewin Askîhk’
This article examines the parallel development of language planning and land planning within the Loon River Cree First Nation. Loon River Cree territory, located in north-central Alberta, Canada, is an area where major oil and gas industry, as well as logging and mining are constantly encroaching. The community, who still use Cree in their daily lives, completed a Traditional Land Use Study in 2004 which documented the historical and contemporary…
Parcourir les sentiers de nos ancêtres
Cet article porte sur l'utilisation d'un jeu de société sur les noms de lieux dans le cadre d'un projet de revitalisation linguistique au sein de la communauté de la Première Nation Tlingit de la Taku River. Le jeu fait appel aux noms de lieux, aux histoires qui s'y rattachent et aux ressources qui sont utilisées par le peuple tlingit et intègre des informations sur le territoire traditionnel des Tlingits. Dans le cadre de cet article, nous souha…
Taku River Tlingit Genres of Place as Performatives of Stewardship
This paper examines how the members of the Taku River Tlingit First Nation are using genres of place such as place names, maps, land policies, and language curricula as performatives of stewardship. Within the political context in Canada, negotiations over land, such as the land claims process, have become prioritized over negotiations over language use, resulting in an ideology where land has often become iconic of First Nation identity. For the…
Constructed Languages
Constructed languages, also known as conlangs, are languages that have been purposefully created for either real-world or fictional speakers. Within this article, I provide a summary of the language creation process and how the community of conlangers, people who make languages, come to know each other's work, as well as how language creation assignments are being adopted within university classrooms. I also explore the role of the language creat…
Media, information technology, and language planning
The languages of Klingon and Na'vi, both created for media, are also languages that have garnered much media attention throughout the course of their existence. Speakers of these languages also utilize social media and information technologies, specifically websites, in order to learn the languages and then put them into practice. While teaching a course on ‘Pidgins, Creoles, and Created Languages’, I realized that endangered language communities…
Nehiyawewin Askîhk’
This article examines the parallel development of language planning and land planning within the Loon River Cree First Nation. Loon River Cree territory, located in north-central Alberta, Canada, is an area where major oil and gas industry, as well as logging and mining are constantly encroaching. The community, who still use Cree in their daily lives, completed a Traditional Land Use Study in 2004 which documented the historical and contemporary…
Parcourir les sentiers de nos ancêtres
Cet article porte sur l'utilisation d'un jeu de société sur les noms de lieux dans le cadre d'un projet de revitalisation linguistique au sein de la communauté de la Première Nation Tlingit de la Taku River. Le jeu fait appel aux noms de lieux, aux histoires qui s'y rattachent et aux ressources qui sont utilisées par le peuple tlingit et intègre des informations sur le territoire traditionnel des Tlingits. Dans le cadre de cet article, nous souha…
Uncertainty in diversity
Since independence in 1975, Papua New Guinea, the most linguistically diverse country in the world, has had both unofficial and official policies of mother-tongue education. However, limited resources and support for mother-tongue education has led communities to incorporate bottom-up language planning as well. In particular, this paper examines the language planning efforts of the Kala Language Committee (KLC). The Kala language, which has four …
The risk of ‘taking urgent steps’
In this introduction, we offer an overview of the topics of language risk, language choice, and language rights in relation to linguistic diversity. We situate this discussion around the recent International Year of Indigenous Languages (2019) and the upcoming International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022–2032). In particular, we consider how the decade’s desire to ‘take urgent steps’ to prevent language loss, might take place on the ground,…
Înîhiyawîtwâw 'They Are Speaking Cree
In this article, we consider the status of Northern Cree, commonly considered a sub-dialect of Plains Cree. Although northern Alberta, where Northern Cree is spoken, is home to thousands of Cree speakers, the sub-dialect's characteristics and dynamics are understudied. Based on our Cree language training since 2000 and our fieldwork since 1996, we provide new data on Northern Cree and on Cree language use and issues in northern Alberta. We elucid…
Parcourir les sentiers de nos ancêtres
Cet article porte sur l'utilisation d'un jeu de société sur les noms de lieux dans le cadre d'un projet de revitalisation linguistique au sein de la communauté de la Première Nation Tlingit de la Taku River. Le jeu fait appel aux noms de lieux, aux histoires qui s'y rattachent et aux ressources qui sont utilisées par le peuple tlingit et intègre des informations sur le territoire traditionnel des Tlingits. Dans le cadre de cet article, nous souha…
Nehiyawewin Askîhk’
This article examines the parallel development of language planning and land planning within the Loon River Cree First Nation. Loon River Cree territory, located in north-central Alberta, Canada, is an area where major oil and gas industry, as well as logging and mining are constantly encroaching. The community, who still use Cree in their daily lives, completed a Traditional Land Use Study in 2004 which documented the historical and contemporary…
U.W.O.A.S. Symposium Abstracts 2003
This paper uses information from the 1906 James Bay Treaty 9 paylists from Chapleau, as well as information acquired in interviews with elders to examine the social history and social geography of the Chapleau Cree "First Nation who migrated from Moose Factory to Chapleau at the turn of the 20th Century
A Proto-Human Language
Media, information technology, and language planning
The languages of Klingon and Na'vi, both created for media, are also languages that have garnered much media attention throughout the course of their existence. Speakers of these languages also utilize social media and information technologies, specifically websites, in order to learn the languages and then put them into practice. While teaching a course on ‘Pidgins, Creoles, and Created Languages’, I realized that endangered language communities…
Canadian Geography as National Identity
The fur trade has a distinctive place in the collective memory of Canadian society, influencing national identity in many ways. Specifically, the fur trade has helped to shape the geography of Canada, which is filled with locales that retain the labels “fort,” “post,” “house,” and “factory.” This paper will discuss the Hudson’s Bay Company’s 1928 call for the collection of Aboriginal place names for “all the posts of the country” and will examine…
Înîhiyawîtwâw 'They Are Speaking Cree
In this article, we consider the status of Northern Cree, commonly considered a sub-dialect of Plains Cree. Although northern Alberta, where Northern Cree is spoken, is home to thousands of Cree speakers, the sub-dialect's characteristics and dynamics are understudied. Based on our Cree language training since 2000 and our fieldwork since 1996, we provide new data on Northern Cree and on Cree language use and issues in northern Alberta. We elucid…
Community consensus and social identity in alphabet development
In the Huon Gulf area of Papua New Guinea, the indigenous language Jabêm was one of the languages of first contact for Lutheran German Missionaries, circa 1900. As a result, Jabêm became a language of the church and, later, a language of education. In both domains, written materials were commonly produced and generations of children were schooled in Jabêm rather than their own mother tongues. This paper discusses the relationship between Jabêm an…
Taku River Tlingit Genres of Place as Performatives of Stewardship
This paper examines how the members of the Taku River Tlingit First Nation are using genres of place such as place names, maps, land policies, and language curricula as performatives of stewardship. Within the political context in Canada, negotiations over land, such as the land claims process, have become prioritized over negotiations over language use, resulting in an ideology where land has often become iconic of First Nation identity. For the…
Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages
The Joy of Dialects
Language and Creativity
Fictional languages are a type of artificial language known as a constructed language. They, and their writing systems, are developed in association with fictional works including literature, television, and film to bring a sense of authenticity to the fictional world. The fictional languages also act to help add a realistic element to the sociolinguistic aspects of the world, as dialects of a language may be used to illustrate social standing. F…
Artificial Languages
Artificial languages are languages that are developed by an individual or a group for a specific purpose, usually international communication or for linguistic experimentation. Artificial languages can also be known as constructed languages. Artificial languages that are developed as a language for international communication are also known as international auxiliary languages and one of the most popular ones of these is Esperanto. Artificial lan…
Constructed Languages
Constructed languages, also known as conlangs, are languages that have been purposefully created for either real-world or fictional speakers. Within this article, I provide a summary of the language creation process and how the community of conlangers, people who make languages, come to know each other's work, as well as how language creation assignments are being adopted within university classrooms. I also explore the role of the language creat…
Uncertainty in diversity
Since independence in 1975, Papua New Guinea, the most linguistically diverse country in the world, has had both unofficial and official policies of mother-tongue education. However, limited resources and support for mother-tongue education has led communities to incorporate bottom-up language planning as well. In particular, this paper examines the language planning efforts of the Kala Language Committee (KLC). The Kala language, which has four …
The risk of ‘taking urgent steps’
In this introduction, we offer an overview of the topics of language risk, language choice, and language rights in relation to linguistic diversity. We situate this discussion around the recent International Year of Indigenous Languages (2019) and the upcoming International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022–2032). In particular, we consider how the decade’s desire to ‘take urgent steps’ to prevent language loss, might take place on the ground,…
A Proto-Human Language
This paper investigates whether or not linguistics can be used to uncover the origins of human language for anatomically modern humans through an examination of proto-language studies. Specifically, this paper examines whether it is possible to determine a proto-language for all modern human languages. A review of comparative linguistics, including the challenges with this mode of study in deep-time, as well as genetic evidence is included to det…
Linguistics (11 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (11 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · History (4 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 obras) · Art (3 obras) · Canadian Identity and History (3 obras)