Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism : Language Identity, Ideology, and Practice in Dynamic Cultural Worlds Paperback / softback
Edited by Leisy T. (University of Arizona, USA) Wyman, Teresa L. (University of California-Los Angeles, USA) McCarty, Sheilah E. (University of Arizona, USA) Nicholas
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Bridging the fields of youth studies and language planning and policy, this book takes a close, nuanced look at Indigenous youth bi/multilingualism across diverse cultural and linguistic settings, drawing out comparisons, contrasts, and important implications for language planning and policy and for projects designed to curtail language loss.
Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars with longstanding ties to language planning efforts in diverse Indigenous communities examine language policy and planning as de facto and de jure – as covert and overt, bottom-up and top-down.
This approach illuminates crosscutting themes of language identity and ideology, cultural conflict, and linguistic human rights as youth negotiate these issues within rapidly changing sociolinguistic contexts.
A distinctive feature of the book is its chapters and commentaries by Indigenous scholars writing about their own communities.
This landmark volume stands alone in offering a look at diverse Indigenous youth in multiple endangered language communities, new theoretical, empirical, and methodological insights, and lessons for intergenerational language planning in dynamic sociocultural contexts.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:230 pages, 4 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:28/08/2013
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- ISBN:9780415522434
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:230 pages, 4 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:28/08/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415522434