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Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism
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Description| Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
| Author(s) | Leisy T. Wyman / Teresa L. McCarty / Sheilah E. Nicholas |
| Subtitle | Language Identity, Ideology, and Practice in Dynamic Cultural Worlds |
| Published | 28th August 2013 |
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Language Identity, Ideology, and Practice in Dynamic Cultural Worlds
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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