While top-down policies and declarations have yet to establish
equal status and opportunities for speakers of all languages in
practice, activists and advocates at local levels are playing an
increasingly significant role in the creation of new social
imaginaries and practices in multilingual contexts. This volume
describes how social actors across multiple domains contribute to
the elusive goal of linguistic equality or justice through their
language activism practices. Through an ethnographic account of
Indigenous Isthmus Zapotec language activism in Oaxaca, Mexico,
this study illuminates the (sometimes conflicting) imaginaries of
what positive social change is and how it should be achieved, and
the repertoire of strategies through which these imaginaries are
being pursued. Ethnographic and action research conducted from
2013-2018 in the multilingual Isthmus of Tehuantepec brings to
light the experiences of educators, students, writers, scholars and
diverse cultural activists whose aspirations and strategies of
social change are significant in shaping the future language
ecology. Their repertoire of strategies may inform and encourage
language activists, scholars, and educators working for change in
other contexts of linguistic diversity and inequality.
General
| Imprint: |
de Gruyter Mouton
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] |
| Release date: |
August 2021 |
| First published: |
2021 |
| Authors: |
Haley De Korne
|
| Dimensions: |
230 x 155mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
259 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5015-1740-2 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Language & linguistics >
Sociolinguistics
|
| LSN: |
1-5015-1740-6 |
| Barcode: |
9781501517402 |
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