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Title Native American language ideologies : beliefs, practices, and struggles in Indian country / edited by Paul V. Kroskrity and Margaret C. Field
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 353 pages) : illustrations
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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
Summary Annotation This book samples the language ideologies of a wide range of Native American communities to show their role in sociocultural transformation. The contributors discuss the impact of contemporary languages issues on grammar, language use, the relation between language and social identity, and emergent language ideologies themselves in Native American speech communities. Book jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Indians -- Languages -- Social aspects
Language and culture -- America
Ideology -- America
Indians -- Ethnic identity
Anthropological linguistics -- America
Indians -- Social life and customs
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Anthropological linguistics
Ideology
Indians -- Ethnic identity
Indians -- Languages -- Social aspects
Indians -- Social life and customs
Language and culture
America
Form Electronic book
Author Kroskrity, Paul V., 1949-
Field, Margaret C., 1961-
LC no. 2008027213
ISBN 9780816502219
0816502218
1299191460
9781299191464