Native American language ideologies : beliefs, practices, and struggles in Indian country /

"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 Cana...

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Contributors: Kroskrity, Paul V., 1949-, Field, Margaret C., 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: revealing Native American language ideologies /
  • Margaret C. Field and Paul V. Kroskrity
  • Changing Navajo language ideologies and changing language use /
  • Margaret C. Field
  • Contradictions across space-time and language ideologies in northern Arapaho language shift /
  • Jeffrey D. Anderson
  • "Language, court, constitution. It's all tied up into one" : the (meta)pragmatics of tradition in a Hopi tribal court hearing /
  • Justin B. Richland
  • English is the dead language : Native perspectives on bilingualism /
  • Jule Gómez de García, Melissa Axelrod, and Jordan Lachler
  • Visibility, authenticity, and insiderness in Cherokee language ideologies /
  • Margaret Bender
  • Language ideology and aboriginal language revitalization in the Yukon, Canada /
  • Barbra A. Meek
  • "You keep not listening with your ears!" : language ideologies, language socialization, and Paiute identity /
  • Pamela A. Bunte
  • Embodying the reversal of language shift : agency, incorporation, and language ideological change in the western Mono community of central California /
  • Paul V. Kroskrity
  • Shaming the shift generation : intersecting ideologies of family and linguistic revitalization in Guatemala /
  • Jennifer F. Reynolds
  • Language revitalization and the manipulation of language ideologies : a Shoshoni case study /
  • Christopher Loether
  • Contingencies of emergence : planning Maliseet language ideologies /
  • Bernard C. Perley
  • Which way is the Kiowa way? : orthography choices, ideologies, and language renewal /
  • Amber A. Neely and Gus Palmer, Jr.