INDIGENOUS YOUTH AND MULTILINGUALISM by Leisy Thornton Wyman (Editor), Teresa L. McCarty (Editor), Sheilah E. Nicholas (Editor) ( 9781136327315 )

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Title:

INDIGENOUS YOUTH AND MULTILINGUALISM
LANGUAGE IDENTITY, IDEOLOGY, AND PRACTICE IN DYNAMIC CULTURAL WORLDS

By:

Leisy Thornton Wyman (Editor), Teresa L. McCarty (Editor), Sheilah E. Nicholas (Editor)

Format:

Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

1136327312

ISBN 13:

9781136327315

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

22 August, 2013

Pages:

230

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.

Illustrations:

4 Halftones, black and white

Publication:

Imprint:

Routledge

Returns:

Non-returnable

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