Multilingualism In The Andes

Author : Rosaleen Howard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429638510

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Multilingualism in the Andes by Rosaleen Howard Pdf

This illuminating book critically examines multicultural language politics and policymaking in the Andean-Amazonian countries of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, demonstrating how issues of language and power throw light on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state. Based on the author’s research in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia over several decades, Howard draws comparisons over time and space. With due attention to history, the book’s focus is situated in the years following the turn of the millennium, a period in which ideological shifts have affected continuity in official policy delivery even as processes of language shift from Indigenous languages such as Aymara and Quechua, to Spanish, have accelerated. The book combines in-depth description and analysis of state-level activity with ethnographic description of responses to policy on the ground. The author works with concepts of technologies of power and language regimentation to draw out the hegemonic workings of power as exercised through language policy creation at multiple scales. This book will be key reading for students and scholars of critical sociolinguistic ethnography, the history, society and politics of the Andean region, and linguistic anthropology, language policy and planning, and Latin American studies more broadly.

Author : Willem F. H. Adelaar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781139451123

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The Languages of the Andes by Willem F. H. Adelaar Pdf

The Andean and Pacific regions of South America are home to a remarkable variety of languages and language families, with a range of typological differences. This linguistic diversity results from a complex historical background, comprising periods of greater communication between different peoples and languages, and periods of fragmentation and individual development. The Languages of the Andes documents in a single volume the indigenous languages spoken and formerly spoken in this linguistically rich region, as well as in adjacent areas. Grouping the languages into different cultural spheres, it describes their characteristics in terms of language typology, language contact, and the social perspectives of present-day languages. The authors provide both historical and contemporary information, and illustrate the languages with detailed grammatical sketches. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book will be a valuable source for students and scholars of linguistics and anthropology alike.

Author : Nicholas Q. Emlen
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816540709

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Language, Coffee, and Migration on an Andean-Amazonian Frontier by Nicholas Q. Emlen Pdf

Extraordinary change is under way in the Alto Urubamba Valley, a vital and turbulent corner of the Andean-Amazonian borderland of southern Peru. Here, tens of thousands of Quechua-speaking farmers from the rural Andes have migrated to the territory of the Indigenous Amazonian Matsigenka people in search of land for coffee cultivation. This migration has created a new multilingual, multiethnic agrarian society. The rich-tasting Peruvian coffee in your cup is the distillate of an intensely dynamic Amazonian frontier, where native Matsigenkas, state agents, and migrants from the rural highlands are carving the forest into farms. Language, Coffee, and Migration on an Andean-Amazonian Frontier shows how people of different backgrounds married together and blended the Quechua, Matsigenka, and Spanish languages in their day-to-day lives. This frontier relationship took place against a backdrop of deforestation, cocaine trafficking, and destructive natural gas extraction. Nicholas Q. Emlen’s rich account—which takes us to remote Amazonian villages, dusty frontier towns, roadside bargaining sessions, and coffee traders’ homes—offers a new view of settlement frontiers as they are negotiated in linguistic interactions and social relationships. This interethnic encounter was not a clash between distinct groups but rather an integrated network of people who adopted various stances toward each other as they spoke. The book brings together a fine-grained analysis of multilingualism with urgent issues in Latin America today, including land rights, poverty, drug trafficking, and the devastation of the world’s largest forest. It offers a timely on-the-ground perspective on the agricultural colonization of the Amazon, which has triggered an environmental emergency threatening the future of the planet.

Author : P. Heggarty,A. Pearce
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230100147

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History and Language in the Andes by P. Heggarty,A. Pearce Pdf

The modern world began with the clash of civilisations between Spaniards and native Americans. Their interplay and struggles ever since are mirrored in the fates of the very languages they spoke. The conquistadors wrought theirs into a new 'world language'; yet the Andes still host the New World's greatest linguistic survivor, Quechua. Historians and linguists see this through different - but complementary - perspectives. This book is a meeting of minds, long overdue, to weave them together. It ranges from Inca collapse to the impacts of colonial rule, reform, independence, and the modern-day trends that so threaten native language here with its ultimate demise.

Author : Yuliana Hevelyn Kenfield
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788929721

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Enacting and Envisioning Decolonial Forces while Sustaining Indigenous Language by Yuliana Hevelyn Kenfield Pdf

Through the presentation of visual and textual insights, this book chronicles the experiences of Quechuan bilingual college students, who strive to maintain their ethnolinguistic identity while succeeding in Spanish-centric curricula. The book merges decolonial theory and participatory action research in pursuit of mobilizing Indigenous languages such as Quechua and depicts the ways in which these Andean college students deal with limited opportunities for Quechua-Spanish bilingual practices. It provides an overview of their collective efforts to mobilize Quechua in higher education, efforts which will help all who read it understand the maintenance of the Quechua language beginning at the grassroots level. The author advocates for engaging language researchers in critical collective forces at the core of conditions which promote Quechua in higher education, a collective effort which must reflect decolonial, non-Eurocentric, non-fundamentalist Indigenous concepts in combination with action-oriented cultural wealth for the benefit of minoritized languages and peoples.

Author : Kendall A. King
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1853594946

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Language Revitalization Processes and Prospects by Kendall A. King Pdf

This work explores educational and community efforts to revitalize the Quichua language in two indigenous Andean communities of southern Ecuador. Analyzing the linguistic, social, and cultural processes of positive language shift, this book contributes to our understanding of formal and informal educational efforts to revitalize threatened languages.

Author : P. Heggarty,A. Pearce
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230370579

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History and Language in the Andes by P. Heggarty,A. Pearce Pdf

The modern world began with the clash of civilisations between Spaniards and native Americans. Their interplay and struggles ever since are mirrored in the fates of the very languages they spoke. The conquistadors wrought theirs into a new 'world language'; yet the Andes still host the New World's greatest linguistic survivor, Quechua. Historians and linguists see this through different - but complementary - perspectives. This book is a meeting of minds, long overdue, to weave them together. It ranges from Inca collapse to the impacts of colonial rule, reform, independence, and the modern-day trends that so threaten native language here with its ultimate demise.

Author : Carolyn McKinney,Pinky Makoe,Virginia Zavala
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000931976

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The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism by Carolyn McKinney,Pinky Makoe,Virginia Zavala Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism provides a comprehensive survey of the field of multilingualism for a global readership and an overview of the research which situates multilingualism in its social, cultural and political context. This fully revised edition not only updates several of the original chapters but introduces many new ones that enrich contemporary debates in the burgeoning field of multilingualism. With a decolonial perspective and including leading new and established contributors from different regions of the globe, the handbook offers a critical overview of the interdisciplinary field of multilingualism, providing a range of central themes, key debates and research sites for a global readership. Chapters address the profound epistemological and ontological challenges and shifts produced since the first edition in 2012. The handbook includes an introduction, five parts with 28 chapters and an afterword. The chapters are structured around sub-themes, such as Coloniality and Multilingualism, Concepts and Theories in Multilingualism, and Multilingualism and Education. This ground-breaking text is a crucial resource for researchers, scholars and postgraduate students interested in multilingualism from areas such as sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, anthropology and education.

Author : Peter Cole,Gabriella Hermon,Mario Daniel Martín
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Aimara
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173001209514

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Language in the Andes by Peter Cole,Gabriella Hermon,Mario Daniel Martín Pdf

Author : Anna-Elisabeth Holm
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000989403

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Migration, Adult Language Learning and Multilingualism by Anna-Elisabeth Holm Pdf

This book extends lines of inquiry at the nexus of migration, adult language learning, and multilingualism, illuminating the lived experiences of migrants in the Faroe Islands and critical new insights into sociolinguistics from the periphery. Building on recent epistemological shifts in research on minoritized languages, this volume integrates threads from scholarship on migration studies, new speakers, and critical sociolinguistics in examining blue-collar workplaces in the Faroe Islands. In bringing greater attention to these contexts, Holm showcases how these sites, when analyzed via an ethnographic lens, reflect both the changing sociolinguistic landscape at the periphery in light of globalization and adult language learners’ commitment to language learning as a form of personal and social investment. In shedding light on the specific case of Faroese, the volume critically reflects on the specific challenges involved in acquiring a small language in a bilingual context and on those impacting the sustainability of minoritized languages, including the increasing use of English, and the opportunities for stakeholders in language policy and planning to promote greater social inclusion for adult migrants. This volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in critical sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, language education, migration studies, and applied linguistics.

Author : Marianna Deganutti
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000910438

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Literary Multilingualism in the Borderlands by Marianna Deganutti Pdf

This book focuses on literary multilingualism and specifically on the challenging condition of writing in Trieste, a key European borderland located at the intersection between the Latin, Germanic and Slav civilisations. By focusing on some of the most representative modern writers operating in the area, such as Italo Svevo, Boris Pahor, Claudio Magris and James Joyce, this work offers a wide-ranging discussion of multilingual practices deriving from the different language choices made by these writers. Along with the most common manifest strategies, such as code-switching and hybridisations, Deganutti highlights how Triestine writers found innovative latent practices to engage with multilingualism, such as writing in an analogical way or exploiting internal linguistic stratifications. Moreover, she shows how they provided answers to the several linguistic, cultural and even political challenges they were subjected to, with the result of redefining linguistic boundaries that clearly separate different tongues. This book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers and academics interested in literary multilingualism in the fields of sociolinguistics, borderland studies and comparative literature.

Author : Willem Frederik Hendrik Adelaar,Pieter Cornelis Muysken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN : OCLC:848712671

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The Languages of the Andes by Willem Frederik Hendrik Adelaar,Pieter Cornelis Muysken Pdf

Author : Bernard Spolsky,Francis M. Hult
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444331042

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The Handbook of Educational Linguistics by Bernard Spolsky,Francis M. Hult Pdf

The Handbook of Educational Linguistics is a dynamic, scientifically grounded overview revealing the complexity of this growing field while remaining accessible for students, researchers, language educators, curriculum developers, and educational policy makers. A single volume overview of educational linguistics, written by leading specialists in its many relevant fields Takes into account the diverse theoretical foundations, core themes, major findings, and practical applications of educational linguistics Highlights the multidisciplinary reach of educational linguistics Reflects the complexity of this growing field, whilst remaining accessible to a wide audience

Author : Peter Auger,Sheldon Brammall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000833034

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Multilingual Texts and Practices in Early Modern Europe by Peter Auger,Sheldon Brammall Pdf

This collection offers a cross-disciplinary exploration of the ways in which multilingual practices were embedded in early modern European literary culture, opening up a dynamic dialogue between contemporary multilingual practices and scholarly work on early modern history and literature. The nine chapters draw on translation studies, literary history, transnational literatures, and contemporary sociolinguistic research to explore how multilingual practices manifested themselves across different social, cultural and institutional spaces. The exploration of a diverse range of contexts allows for the opportunity to engage with questions around how individual practices shape national and transnational language practices and literatures, the impact of multilingual practices on identity formation, and their implications for creative innovations in bilingual and multilingual texts. Taken as a whole, the collection paves the way for future conversations on what early modern literary studies and present-day multilingualism research might learn from one another and the extent to which historical texts might supply precedents for contemporary multilingual practices. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, early modern studies in history and literature, and comparative literature.

Author : Kristin Vold Lexander,Jannis Androutsopoulos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000870411

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Multilingual Families in a Digital Age by Kristin Vold Lexander,Jannis Androutsopoulos Pdf

This book offers new insights into transnational family life in today’s digital age, exploring the media resources and language practices parents and children employ toward maintaining social relationships in digital interactions and constructing transnational family bonds and identities. The book seeks to expand the boundaries of existing research on family multilingualism, in which digital communication has been little studied until now. Drawing on ethnographic studies of four families of Senegalese background in Norway, Lexander and Androutsopoulos develop an integrated approach which weaves together participants’ linguistic choices for situated interaction, the affordances of digital technologies, and the families’ language and media ideologies. The book explores such key themes as the integration of linguistic and media resources in family repertoires, creative practices of digital translanguaging, engagement in diaspora practices, and opportunities of digital communication for the development of children's heritage language skills. With an innovative perspective on ‘doing family’ in the digital age, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in multilingualism, sociolinguistics, digital communication, language and communication, and language and media.