Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism - Language Identity, Ideology, and Practice in Dynamic Cultural Worlds (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2013
First published:	2014
Editors:	Leisy T. Wyman • Teresa L. McCarty • Sheilah E Nicholas
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-52242-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Psycholinguistics > Bilingualism & multilingualism
LSN:	0-415-52242-0
Barcode:	9780415522427

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