Native American language ideologies : beliefs, practices, and struggles in Indian country / edited by Paul V. Kroskrity and Margaret C. Field.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kroskrity, Paul V., 1949-

Field, Margaret C., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians--Languages--Social aspects.

Indians.

Language and culture--America.

Language and culture.

Ideology--America.

Ideology.

Indigenous peoples--Ethnic identity.

Indigenous peoples.

Anthropological linguistics--America.

Anthropological linguistics.

Indigenous peoples--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Beliefs and feelings about language vary dramatically within and across Native American cultural groups and are an acknowledged part of the processes of language shift and language death. This volume samples the language ideologies of a wide range of Native American communities--from the Canadian Yukon to Guatemala--to show their role in sociocultural transformation. These studies take up such active issues as "insiderness" in Cherokee language ideologies, contradictions of space-time for the Northern Arapaho, language socialization and Paiute identity, and orthography choices and language renewal among the Kiowa. The authors--including members of indigenous speech communities who participate in language renewal efforts--discuss not only Native Americans' conscious language ideologies but also the often-revealing relationship between these beliefs and other more implicit realizations of language use as embedded in community practice. The chapters discuss the impact of contemporary language issues related to grammar, language use, the relation between language and social identity, and emergent language ideologies themselves in Native American speech communities. And although they portray obvious variation in attitudes toward language across communities, they also reveal commonalities--notably the emergent ideological process of iconization between a language and various national, ethnic, and tribal identities. As fewer Native Americans continue to speak their own language, this timely volume provides valuable grounded studies of language ideologies in action--those indigenous to Native communities as well as those imposed by outside institutions or language researchers. It considers the emergent interaction of indigenous and imported ideologies and the resulting effect on language beliefs, practices, and struggles in today's Indian Country as it demonstrates the practical implications of recognizing a multiplicity of indigenous language ideologies and their impact on heritage language maintenance and renewal.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-299-19146-0

0-8165-0221-8

OCLC:

923438142