Screen LibraryLessons from Fort Apache : beyond language endangerment and maintenance /
"This incisive ethnographic analysis of indigenous language documentation, maintenance, and revitalization focuses on linguistic heritage issues on the Native American reservation at Fort Apache and explores the broader social, political and religious influences on changing language practices i...
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Wiley-Blackwell, a John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication,
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| Publisher Address: | Chichester, West Sussex : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell studies in discourse and culture ; 5
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| Summary: |
"This incisive ethnographic analysis of indigenous language documentation, maintenance, and revitalization focuses on linguistic heritage issues on the Native American reservation at Fort Apache and explores the broader social, political and religious influences on changing language practices in indigenous communities. [This volume] offers a focused ethnographic analysis of an indigenous community that also explores global issues of language endangerment and maintenance and their socio-historical contexts; addresses the complexities and conflicts in language documentation and revitalization programs, and how they articulate with localized discourse genres, education practices, religious beliefs, and politics; examines differing evaluations of language loss, and maintenance, among members of affected communities, and their creative responses to challenges posed by encompassing socio-cultural regimes, including university accredited language experts; and provides an ethnographic analysis of speech in indigenous communities that moves beyond narrowly conceived language documentation to consider changing linguistic and social identities." -- Publisher's description. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 265 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781118424230 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 1118424239 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | E99 |
| CLC: |
H83 H0-05 |
| Call Number: | H0-05/N528 |
| Contents: |
Indigenous languages and the mediation of communities -- Learning to listen: coming to terms with conflicting meanings of language loss -- They live in Lonesome Dove: English in indigenous places -- Stories in the moment of encounter: documentation boundary work -- What no coyote story means: the borderland genre of traditional storytelling -- "Some 'no no' and some 'yes'": silence, agency, and traditionalist words -- Sustainability: possible socialities of documentation and maintenance. |