Rememberer

In linguistics, a rememberer is a person who knows individual words or phrases (sometimes entire texts) of a dying or dead language, but cannot use the language productively.[1] This is contrasted with fluent or full speakers, who have a good command of the language, and semi-speakers, who have a partial command of it.[2] The distinction between fluent speakers and rememberers is important in fieldwork; accurately determining where a member of a language community falls on the speaker-rememberer continuum can be challenging. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Grinevald, Colette; Bert, Michel (2011). The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages. Cambridge. p. 51.
  2. ↑ Podesva, Robert J. et al. (2014). Research Methods in Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-1107696358.
  3. ↑ Chelliah, Shobhana L. et al. (2010). Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 176–177. ISBN 978-9048190256.