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Revitalization is the implementation of an documented language in an attempt to awaken a sleeping language. Nancy Currier Dorian edit article.

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Small- Language Fates and Prospects: Lessons of persistence and Change from Endangered Languages (2014) Nancy Dorian's publication of her book Small- Language Fates and Prospects: Lessons of persistence and Change from Endangered Languages, is a collection of 23 of her essay’s on Language death focusing primarily on East Sutherland Gaelic. These collections span a forty-year period of her study and covers a multitude of aspects within Gaelic language decline. Primarily this book is broken up into five parts; part one language change in and obsolescent language, part two speaker skills and the speech community in a receding language context, part three language shift and language maintenance, part four Language use and part five fieldwork: method, problems insights.

This book according to the review by Linguist Lenore A. Grenoble who describes it as, “literally pioneering” also notes that the most striking thing about the book is the relevance it has in its field today considering the book spans decades of work. As well Anthropologist Emily McEwan- Fujita mentions that the book is “exemplary” and an “excellent resource for any student or scholar researching endangered languages”. Grenoble also highlights the usefulness of publishing a book of these collections that gives easier access where tracking down older articles may be difficult. As well together it creates a whole picture of her research. Dorian showcases in this book that her primary focus of study is three fishing towns known as Brora, Golspie, and Embo located on the highland northeast coast. This book spans the focus of the transformation of the Gaelic dialect in these towns. Firstly, Dorian noticed that on her arrival that many people where bilingual in Gaelic and English and no monolingual speakers in Gaelic. Further Dorian documented linguistic changes such as speech pattern, “morphological and other aspects of language change”. Secondly, she documents speaker skills and reductions in proficiency and the identification of semi-speakers. Thirdly, Dorian analyzes language ideology and their importance in language shift. Fourthly, Dorian argues that it is important to look at the complexity of speakers even in restrictive interactions and “the use of emphatic suffix”. Dorian concludes this book with notes on field work and methodologies of working within a community where you are an outsider. Dorian utilizes her decades worth of work to provide an in-depth view of Gaelic language transformation in this region of linguistic anthropology.

This book consists of these 23 publications:

1. Dorian, Nancy C. (1973). Grammatical Change in a Dying Dialect. Brill.

2. Dorian, Nancy C. (1978). The Fate of Morphological Complexity in Scottish Gaelic Language Death: Evidence from East Sutherland Gaelic. Brill.

3. Dorian, Nancy C. (1986). Making do with Less: Some Surprises along the Language Death Proficiency Continuum. Brill.

4. Dorian, Nancy C. (2006). Negative Borrowing in an Indigenous Language Shift to the Dominant National Language. Brill.

5. Dorian, Nancy C. (1977). The Problem of the Semi-Speaker in Language Death. Brill.

6. Dorian, Nancy C. (1980). Language Shift in Community and Individual: The Phenomenon of the Laggard Semi-Speaker. Brill.

7. Dorian, Nancy C. (1982). Defining the Speech Community to Include its Working Margins. Brill.

8. Dorian, Nancy C. (1986). Abrupt Transmission Failure in Obsolescing Languages: How Sudden the ‘Tip’ to the Dominant Language in Communities and Families? Brill.

9. Dorian, Nancy C. (2009). Age and Speaker Skills in Receding Language Communities: How Far do Community Evaluations and Linguists’ Evaluations Agree? Bill.

10. Dorian, Nancy C. (1980). Linguistic Lag as an Ethnic Marker. Brill

11. Dorian, Nancy C. (1982). Language Loss and Maintenance in Language Contact Situations. Brill

12. Dorian, Nancy C. (1987). The Value of Language-Maintenance Efforts which are Unlikely to Succeed. Brill.

13. Dorian, Nancy C. (2011). The Ambiguous Arithmetic of Language Maintenance and Revitalization Brill.

14. Dorian, Nancy C. (1994). Purism vs. Compromise in Language Revitalization and Language Revival. Brill.

15. Dorian, Nancy C. (1998). Western Language Ideologies and Small-Language Prospects. Brill.

16. Dorian, Nancy C. (2004). Bi- and Multilingualism in Minority and Endangered Languages. Brill.

17. Dorian, Nancy C. (1994). Stylistic Variation in a Language Restricted to Private-Sphere Use. Brill.

18. Dorian, Nancy C. (1997). Telling the Monolinguals from the Bilinguals: Unrealistic Code Choices in Direct Quotations within Scottish Gaelic Narratives. Brill.

19. Dorian, Nancy C. (1999). Celebrations: In Praise of the Particular Voices of Languages at Risk. Brill.

20. Dorian, Nancy C. (1986). Gathering Language Data in Terminal Speech Communities. Brill.

21. Dorian, Nancy C. (2001). Surprises in Sutherland: Linguistic Variability amidst Social Uniformity. Brill.

22. Dorian, Nancy C. (2010). Documentation and Responsibility. Brill.

23. Dorian, Nancy C. (2010). The Private and the Public in Language Documentation and Revitalization. Brill.

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 * 1) Fossey 2014. p. vii-viii.
 * 2) Grenoble 2016 p.106.
 * 3) McEwan-Fujita 2015.p.432
 * 4) Grenoble 2016 p.106.
 * 5) Grenoble 2016. p.106.
 * 6) McEwan- Fujita 2015.p.427.
 * 7) Grenoble 2016. p.105.
 * 8) McEwan- Fujita 2015.p.427.
 * 9) Grenoble 2016 p.105.
 * 10) Grenoble 2016.p.105
 * 11) Grenoble 2016.p.105.