Encouraging Usage of an Endangered Ancestral Language: A Supportive Role for Caregivers' Deictic Gestures

Autor/inn/en	Yuksel, Peri; Brooks, Patricia J.
Titel	Encouraging Usage of an Endangered Ancestral Language: A Supportive Role for Caregivers' Deictic Gestures
Quelle	In: First Language, 37 (2017) 6, S.561-582 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7237
DOI	10.1177/0142723717713502
Schlagwörter	Language Usage; Language Maintenance; Language Skill Attrition; Nonverbal Communication; Uncommonly Taught Languages; Caregiver Child Relationship; Parent Child Relationship; Toys; Coding; Turkish; Language Proficiency; Speech Communication; Play; Toddlers; Video Technology; Task Analysis; Foreign Countries; Language Acquisition; Grandparents; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachgebrauch; Sprachpflege; Sprachverfall; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Minderheitensprache; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Toy; Spielzeug; Codierung; Programmierung; Türkisch; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Spiel; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Aufgabenanalyse; Ausland; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Großeltern; Türkei
Abstract	Many ancestral languages (AL) are at imminent risk of extinction due to societal changes that pressure minority communities to assimilate with dominant cultures and forego usage of their AL. This study aimed to encourage caregiver-child dyads to converse in Lazuri, an endangered AL in Rize, Turkey. Dyads (N = 59; child age M = 30.7 months, range 15-48) were asked to speak Lazuri while playing with culturally appropriate toys for 20 minutes. Utterances were coded for language and accompanying gestures. With children speaking mostly in Turkish, caregivers experienced difficulties maintaining AL usage, yet were generally compliant with instructions. Caregivers more often produced deictic gestures when speaking Lazuri than when speaking Turkish, suggesting that children's lack of AL proficiency influenced their gesturing. Moreover, caregivers who produced more gesture-speech combinations in the AL had children who produced more AL utterances, after controlling for the amount of AL input. Results indicate the feasibility of enhancing AL input through directed toy-play in contexts of language endangerment. In such contexts, deictic gestures may be especially valuable in grounding AL usage in the immediate context. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01