Linguistic Ideologies of Native American Language Revitalization: Doing the Lost Language Ghost Dance (SpringerBriefs in Anthropology)
Description
The concept of this volume is that the paradigm of European national languages (official orthography; language standardization; full use of language in most everyday contexts) is imposed in cookie-cutter fashion on most language revitalization efforts of Native American languages. While this model fits the sovereign status of many Native American groups, it does not meet the linguistic ideology of Native American communities, and creates projects and products that do not engage the communities which they are intended to serve. The concern over heritage language loss has gen...
ISBN(s)
3319052926, 9783319052922
