Talking about language endangerment and Indigenous languages in the classroom: Some dos and don’ts I have learned through fieldwork in the Brazilian Amazon
Adam Singerman
January 2025
 

How we discuss the phenomenon of language endangerment can have unexpected consequences. In this paper, I offer five recommendations as to how we should and should not talk about endangered languages in our classrooms. My discussion of these recommendations draws extensively upon my experience conducting field research on Tupari, an Indigenous Amazonian language spoken in the Brazilian state of Rondonia.
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Reference: lingbuzz/008761
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Published in: In Syntax in Uncharted Territories: Essays in Honor of Maria Polinsky. Full volume available at: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rk3n45s
keywords: ethics, documentation, fieldwork, endangerment, pedagogy, minority languages, morphology, syntax
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