Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism Language Identity, Ideology, and Practice in Dynamic Cultural Worlds
Synopsis
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.
Book details
- Author:
- Leisy T. Wyman, Teresa L. McCarty, Sheilah E. Nicholas
- ISBN:
- 9781136327308
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780203121436, 9780415522427, 9780415522427, 9780415522434, 9780415522434
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- Yes
- Date of addition:
- 2020-02-01
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Copyright by:
- Taylor
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Education, Foreign Language Study, Language Arts, Nonfiction