Language Vitalization through Language Documentation and Description in the Kosovar Sign Language Community
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The aim of this study is twofold. Firstly I scrutinize some of the methodological issues and particular challenges that we faced in our work on language revitalization – or more specifically, language vitalization – and community empowerment in the Kosovar Sign Language (KosSL) community.2 Secondly, I give an account of some important results concerning the preconditions for our work, including what I see as a successful language vitalization process, by giving the floor to the Kosovar people who have been involved in implementing the work. In bringing the views of the sign language community directly to the reader, this study is a continuation of the participatory methods that have been applied in the project. In order to realise this aim, the text is rich in quotations.