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.
Author(s): Leisy T. Wyman, Teresa L. McCarty, Sheilah E. Nicholas
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2013
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Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1: Beyond Endangerment: Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism
2 Genealogies of Language Loss and Recovery—Native Youth Language Practices and Cultural Continuance
3 Just Keep Expanding Outwards: Embodied Space as Cultural Critique in the Life and Work of a Navajo Hip Hop Artist
4 “Being” Hopi by “Living” Hopi—Redefining and Reasserting Cultural and Linguistic Identity: Emergent Hopi Youth Ideologies
5 Youth Linguistic Survivance in Transforming Settings: A Yup’ik Example
6 “I Didn’t Know You Knew Mexicano!”: Shifting Ideologies, Identities, and Ambivalence among Former Youth in Tlaxcala, Mexico
7 Critical Language Awareness among Native Youth in New Mexico
8 Igniting a Youth Language Movement: Inuit Youth as Agents of Circumpolar Language Planning
9 Efforts of the Ree-volution: Revitalizing Arikara Language in an Endangered Language Context
10 Commentary: A Hawaiian Revitalization Perspective on Indigenous Youth and Bilingualism
11 Commentary: Indigenous Youth Bilingualism from a Yup’ik Perspective
12 Commentary: En/countering Indigenous Bi/Multilingualism
About the Contributors
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Author Index
Subject Index
