0 the process of making something grow, develop, or become successful again: --
This all means that the school will play only a minor role in language revitalization.
There has been widespread revitalization of the languages eclipsed by the spread of the national language(s).
During the reign of behaviorism, the study of the higher mental processes was moribund and in serious need of revitalization.
The revitalization of the city was so clearly a matter of local interest, he argued, that it must be dealt with by local people.
Of course, revitalization may then become somewhat institutionalized.
Saving a language calls for a "revitalization team" (p. 157) to galvanize and activate people at all levels within an endangered speech community.
He identified nativistic manifestations that sought to eradicate disruptive alien elements as a major sub-class of revitalization movements.
Rather, it has generated a great deal of intellectual debate and research, creating a sense of revitalization in the field of phonology.