ISBN:
9780415801393
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (328 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Ethnography and Language Policy
DDC:
306.44/9
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Illuminating, through ethnographic inquiry, how individual agents ""make"" language policy in everyday social practice, this volume advances the growing field of language planning and policy using a critical sociocultural approach. From this perspective, language policy is conceptualized not only as official acts and documents, but as language-regulating modes of human interaction, negotiation, and production mediated by relations of power. Using this conceptual framework, the volume addresses the impacts of globalization, diaspora, and transmigration on language practices and policies; langua
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; ENTRY INTO CONVERSATION Introducing Ethnography and Language Policy; ETHNOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE POLICY CASES AND CONTEXTS, PART I; 1 Critical Ethnography and Indigenous Language Survival: Some New Directions in Language Policy Research and Praxis; 2 "How Are You Hopi if You Can't Speak It?": An Ethnographic Study of Language as Cultural Practice among Contemporary Hopi Youth; 3 Diaspora Communities, Language Maintenance, and Policy Dilemmas
Description / Table of Contents:
4 Reconstructing Ethnography and Language Policy in Colonial Namibian Schooling: Historical Perspectives on St Mary's High School at OdiboINTERLUDE - COMMENTARIES ON PART I; Language Ideologies, Ethnography, and Ethnology: New Directions in Anthropological Approaches to Language Policy; Language, Globalization, and the State: Issues for the New Policy Studies; ETHNOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE POLICY CASES AND CONTEXTS, PART II; 5 International Migration and Quichua Language Shift in the Ecuadorian Andes; 6 Exploring Biliteracy in Māori-Medium Education: An Ethnographic Perspective
Description / Table of Contents:
7 US Latinos and the Learning of English: The Metonymy of Language Policy8 Critical Perspectives on Language-in-Education Policy: The Corsican Example; 9 Languages, Texts, and Literacy Practices: An Ethnographic Lens on Bilingual Vocational Education in Wales; 10 Researching-TextingTensions in Qualitative Research: Ethics in and around Textual Fidelity, Selectivity, and Translations; DISCUSSION AND SYNTHESIS; 11 The Ethnography of Language Policy; About the Contributors; Index
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Description based upon print version of record
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