Native American Language Ideologies

Author : Paul V. Kroskrity,Margaret C. Field
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816529162

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Native American Language Ideologies by Paul V. Kroskrity,Margaret C. Field Pdf

Beliefs and feelings about language vary dramatically within and across Native American cultural groups and are an acknowledged part of the processes of language shift and language death. This volume samples the language ideologies of a wide range of Native American communities--from the Canadian Yukon to Guatemala--to show their role in sociocultural transformation. These studies take up such active issues as "insiderness" in Cherokee language ideologies, contradictions of space-time for the Northern Arapaho, language socialization and Paiute identity, and orthography choices and language renewal among the Kiowa. The authors--including members of indigenous speech communities who participate in language renewal efforts--discuss not only Native Americans' conscious language ideologies but also the often-revealing relationship between these beliefs and other more implicit realizations of language use as embedded in community practice. The chapters discuss the impact of contemporary language issues related to grammar, language use, the relation between language and social identity, and emergent language ideologies themselves in Native American speech communities. And although they portray obvious variation in attitudes toward language across communities, they also reveal commonalities--notably the emergent ideological process of iconization between a language and various national, ethnic, and tribal identities. As fewer Native Americans continue to speak their own language, this timely volume provides valuable grounded studies of language ideologies in action--those indigenous to Native communities as well as those imposed by outside institutions or language researchers. It considers the emergent interaction of indigenous and imported ideologies and the resulting effect on language beliefs, practices, and struggles in today's Indian Country as it demonstrates the practical implications of recognizing a multiplicity of indigenous language ideologies and their impact on heritage language maintenance and renewal.

Author : David Leedom Shaul
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319052939

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Linguistic Ideologies of Native American Language Revitalization by David Leedom Shaul Pdf

The concept of this volume is that the paradigm of European national languages (official orthography; language standardization; full use of language in most everyday contexts) is imposed in cookie-cutter fashion on most language revitalization efforts of Native American languages. While this model fits the sovereign status of many Native American groups, it does not meet the linguistic ideology of Native American communities, and creates projects and products that do not engage the communities which they are intended to serve. The concern over heritage language loss has generated since 1990 enormous activity that is supposed to restore full private and public function of heritage languages in Native American speech communities. The thinking goes: if you do what the volume terms the "Lost Language Ghost Dance," your heritage language will flourish once more. Yet the heritage language only flourishes on paper, and not in any meaningful way for the community it is trying to help. Instead, this volume proposes a model of Native American language revitalization that is different from the national/official language model, one that respects and incorporates language variation, and entertains variable outcomes. This is because it is based on Native American linguistic ideologies. This volume argues that the cookie-cutter application of the official language ideology is unethical because it undermines the intent of language revitalization itself: the continued daily, meaningful use of a heritage language in its speech community.

Author : Paul V. Kroskrity,Margaret C. Field
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816502219

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Native American Language Ideologies by Paul V. Kroskrity,Margaret C. Field Pdf

Beliefs and feelings about language vary dramatically within and across Native American cultural groups and are an acknowledged part of the processes of language shift and language death. This volume samples the language ideologies of a wide range of Native American communities--from the Canadian Yukon to Guatemala--to show their role in sociocultural transformation. These studies take up such active issues as "insiderness" in Cherokee language ideologies, contradictions of space-time for the Northern Arapaho, language socialization and Paiute identity, and orthography choices and language renewal among the Kiowa. The authors--including members of indigenous speech communities who participate in language renewal efforts--discuss not only Native Americans' conscious language ideologies but also the often-revealing relationship between these beliefs and other more implicit realizations of language use as embedded in community practice. The chapters discuss the impact of contemporary language issues related to grammar, language use, the relation between language and social identity, and emergent language ideologies themselves in Native American speech communities. And although they portray obvious variation in attitudes toward language across communities, they also reveal commonalities--notably the emergent ideological process of iconization between a language and various national, ethnic, and tribal identities. As fewer Native Americans continue to speak their own language, this timely volume provides valuable grounded studies of language ideologies in action--those indigenous to Native communities as well as those imposed by outside institutions or language researchers. It considers the emergent interaction of indigenous and imported ideologies and the resulting effect on language beliefs, practices, and struggles in today's Indian Country as it demonstrates the practical implications of recognizing a multiplicity of indigenous language ideologies and their impact on heritage language maintenance and renewal.

Author : Leisy T. Wyman,Teresa L. McCarty,Sheilah E. Nicholas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136327308

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Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism by Leisy T. Wyman,Teresa L. McCarty,Sheilah E. Nicholas Pdf

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.

Author : Mindy J. Morgan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803226296

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Bearer of This Letter by Mindy J. Morgan Pdf

New Literacies and Old WaysNotes; Bibliography; Index.

Author : Paul V. Kroskrity,Barbra A. Meek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317361282

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Engaging Native American Publics by Paul V. Kroskrity,Barbra A. Meek Pdf

Engaging Native American Publics considers the increasing influence of Indigenous groups as key audiences, collaborators, and authors with regards to their own linguistic documentation and representation. The chapters critically examine a variety of North American case studies to reflect on the forms and effects of new collaborations between language researchers and Indigenous communities, as well as the types and uses of products that emerge with notions of cultural maintenance and linguistic revitalization in mind. In assessing the nature and degree of change from an early period of "salvage" research to a period of greater Indigenous "self-determination," the volume addresses whether increased empowerment and accountability has truly transformed the terms of engagement and what the implications for the future might be.

Author : Shirley Silver,Robin M. Canup,Wick R. Miller,Kevin Righter
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816521395

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Origin of the Earth and Moon by Shirley Silver,Robin M. Canup,Wick R. Miller,Kevin Righter Pdf

This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.

Author : Teresa L. McCarty,Sheilah E. Nicholas,Gillian Wigglesworth
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788923088

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A World of Indigenous Languages by Teresa L. McCarty,Sheilah E. Nicholas,Gillian Wigglesworth Pdf

Spanning Indigenous settings in Africa, the Americas, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, Central Asia and the Nordic countries, this book examines the multifaceted language reclamation work underway by Indigenous peoples throughout the world. Exploring political, historical, ideological, and pedagogical issues, the book foregrounds the decolonizing aims of contemporary Indigenous language movements inside and outside of schools. Many authors explore language reclamation in their own communities. Together, the authors call for expanded discourses on language planning and policy that embrace Indigenous ways of knowing and forefront grassroots language reclamation efforts as a force for Indigenous sovereignty, social justice, and self-determination. This volume will be of interest to scholars, educators and students in applied linguistics, Ethnic/Indigenous Studies, education, second language acquisition, and comparative-international education, and to a broader audience of language educators, revitalizers and policymakers.

Author : Allison Burkette,Tamara Warhol
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501514395

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Crossing Borders, Making Connections by Allison Burkette,Tamara Warhol Pdf

This edited volume explores the scope of interdisciplinary linguistics and includes voices from scholars in different disciplines within the social sciences and humanities, as well as different sub-disciplines within linguistics. Chapters within this volume offer a range of perspectives on interdisciplinary studies, represent a connection between different disciplines, or demonstrate an application of interdisciplinarity within linguistics. The volume is divided into three sections: perspectives, connections, and applications. Perspectives The goal of this section is to address more generally the definition(s) of and value of multi-, trans-, and inter-disciplinary work. In what areas and for what purposes is there a need for work that crosses discipline boundaries? What are the challenges of undertaking such work? What opportunities are available? Connections This section features paired chapters written by scholars in different disciplines that discuss the same concept/idea/issue. For example, a discussion of how "assemblage" works in archaeology is paired with a discussion of how "assemblage" can be used to talk about ‘style’ in linguistics. Applications This section can be framed as sample answers to the question: What does interdisciplinarity look like?

Author : Adam Michael Haviland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : MSU:31293030637411

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When We Speak Our Languages by Adam Michael Haviland Pdf

Author : Paul V. Kroskrity
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Anthropological linguistics
ISBN : 0806142278

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Telling Stories in the Face of Danger by Paul V. Kroskrity Pdf

"Highlighting language renewal programs, Telling Stories in the Face of Danger presents case studies from various North American communities that show tribal stories as vehicles of moral development, healing, and the construction of identity. . . Several essays presented here describe successful efforts to maintain, revitalize, and renew narrative traditions or to adapt them to new institutions, such as schools. Others consider less successful efforts, noting conflicts among older and younger tribal members or differences between academic and traditional language expertise or between insiders and outsiders. The contributors, some of whom are members of the communities they describe, also examine the use of narrative as an act of resistance."--

Author : Ying Wang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501503702

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Language Ideologies in the Chinese Context by Ying Wang Pdf

This book explores language ideologies in China, which encounters the unprecedented global spread of English as a lingua franca, against the backdrop of globalisation where China emerges as a rapidly developing economy with vigorous promotion of Chinese around the world. The book addresses Chinese speakers' ideologies in relation to ELF and provides insights into non-native English speakers' engagement in the development of English in the future.

Author : Bambi B. Schieffelin,Kathryn Ann Woolard,Paul V. Kroskrity
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780195105629

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Language Ideologies by Bambi B. Schieffelin,Kathryn Ann Woolard,Paul V. Kroskrity Pdf

This text refers to the representation of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. These essays examine definitions and conceptions of language focusing on how such activity organizes individuals & their interrelationships.

Author : Serafín M. Coronel-Molina,Teresa L. McCarty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135092351

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Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas by Serafín M. Coronel-Molina,Teresa L. McCarty Pdf

Focusing on the Americas – home to 40 to 50 million Indigenous people – this book explores the history and current state of Indigenous language revitalization across this vast region. Complementary chapters on the USA and Canada, and Latin America and the Caribbean, offer a panoramic view while tracing nuanced trajectories of "top down" (official) and "bottom up" (grass roots) language planning and policy initiatives. Authored by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, the book is organized around seven overarching themes: Policy and Politics; Processes of Language Shift and Revitalization; The Home-School-Community Interface; Local and Global Perspectives; Linguistic Human Rights; Revitalization Programs and Impacts; New Domains for Indigenous Languages Providing a comprehensive, hemisphere-wide scholarly and practical source, this singular collection simultaneously fills a gap in the language revitalization literature and contributes to Indigenous language revitalization efforts.

Author : Annelies Kusters,Mara Green,Erin Moriarty,Kristin Snoddon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501510090

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Sign Language Ideologies in Practice by Annelies Kusters,Mara Green,Erin Moriarty,Kristin Snoddon Pdf

This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from those of spoken languages using the auditory-oral modality.