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Lessons 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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Main Authors: Nevins, M. Eleanor
Published: Wiley-Blackwell, a John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication,
Publisher Address: Chichester, West Sussex :
Publication Dates: 2013.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Wiley-Blackwell studies in discourse and culture ; 5
Subjects:
Apache Indians > Arizona > Fort Apache Indian Reservation > Languages
Apache Indians > Arizona > San Carlos Indian Reservation > Languages
Endangered languages
Language maintenance
Ethnology
Anthropological linguistics
Apache Indians > Social life and customs
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
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.

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