Leanne Hinton
Professor emerita
American Indian languages, sociolinguistics, language loss and language revival
Languages: Havasupai, California Indian languages
Ph.D., UCSD, 1975
Groups: Fieldwork & Language Documentation, Language & Social Context
Contact information
Office: 1224 Dwinelle
Email: hinton@berkeley.edu
Office phone: (510) 219-4842
Fax: (510) 643-5688
Web site: http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/fac/hinton.html
Mailing address:
1203 Dwinelle #2650
Berkeley, CA 94720-2650
Personal statement
Leanne Hinton's recent research has focused on language revitalization of Native American languages. She strongly supports interdisciplinary approaches to linguistics, and linguistic research that relates to community needs and interests, as well as to theory. Though recently retired, she remains active in teaching, research and consulting. In 2006, she won the Lannan Foundation's Cultural Freedom Award, with a stipend that allows her to pursue a new project of observing families who are making endangered languages the languages of their homes.Selected publications
RECENT BOOKS: HOW TO KEEP YOUR LANGUAGE ALIVE (Heyday Books, 2002)
THE GREEN BOOK OF LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION IN PRACTICE (ed. with Ken Hale, Academic Press, 2001)
SELECTED RECENT ARTICLES:
2008 Language Revitalization. In Indians In Contemporary Society. Volume 2, Handbook of North American Indians. Smithsonian Institution.
2007 The Status of Indigenous Languages in the United States. in Revitalizing the Periphery: Proceedings of the Saami language conference, Inari, Finland, November 14-15, 2002.
2007 The languages of California. In Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim, ed. By Osahito Miyaoka. Oxford University Press.
2007 Learning and Teaching Endangered Indigenous Languages. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Springer Press.
2005 Racial nicknames and mascots for sports teams. News from Native California, Vol. 19, No. 2, Winter 2005/06, pp. 37-39
2003. How to teach when the teacher isn't fluent. in Nurturing Native Languages. ed. by Jon Reyhner, Octaviana Trujillo, Roberto Carrasco and Louise Lockard. Northern Arizona University Press. Also on the web: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/NNL/NNL_6.pdf
(J) 2003 Language revitalization. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 23, pp. 44-57.
2003 What Ishi’s stories tell us about Ishi. (by Herb Luthin and Leanne Hinton.) in Ishi in Three Centuries. Ed. By Karl Kroeber. University of Nebraska Press.
2003 Endangered languages. In International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd edition. Ed. By William J. Frawley. Oxford University Press. Vol. 1, pp. 514-515.
"Involuntary language loss among immigrants." In Georgetown University Round Table in Language and Linguistics, 1999, pp. 203-252 (2001).
2000 Involuntary Language Loss Among Immigrants: Asian-American Linguistic Autobiographies (ERIC digest). Center for Applied Linguistics. http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/involuntary.html
(A shortened version of Hinton 2001.)