英文摘要 |
To help save the endangered languages from extinction, linguists around the world not only have devoted themselves to the studies on these languages, but also have made efforts to develop different models of collaboration hand in hand with the community members in order to revitalize the languages. Czaykowska-Higgins (2009) proposes that researches should not take the language as a subject to work on, but should be done for the community, with the community and by the community. This paper reports the authors' Saisiyat experiences, sharing how the authors went from the stage where there existed a division between the linguist and the community, through more equal and mutually beneficial interactions, and then to a change of research interests on the part of the researcher, developing a model of collaboration between language community and college. The development of such cooperative model comes out as the accumulation of a long-term devotion to the common goal towards language preservation through the involvement in various revitalization endeavors from different organizations, including the Council of Indigenous People. |