Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: revival of a heritage language. A question of literacy and orality

Chapter 2. Vepsian representations and language in history

Chapter 3. Multilingual Russia: superdiversity meets language revival

Chapter 4. Revaluation of language: field work as a give-and-take phenomenon

Chapter 5. Metaphors of language: independent entity vs. experience of life

Chapter 6. A way to make sense of the world using dialects in villages

Chapter 7. Vepsän kel’ and the city

Chapter 8. Education and the babushka

Conclusion. Revitalizing a heritage language. Towards multimodality and "multispatiality"

About the Author

Laura Siragusa is a linguistic anthropology working within a program on Indigenous Studies at the University of Helsinki. She has co-edited a special issue on Language Sustainability for the Journal Anthropologica, and published miscellaneous articles on Vepsian matters in Sibirica, JEFUL, and Folklore.