Author : Deborah House
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,53 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816522200
Discusses the alarming reduction in the speaking of the Navajo language on the reservation, mapping out some of the intricacies of relations between the English and Navajo languages and the teaching of them, explaining why and how Navajos are having difficulty maintaining their native language, and making suggestions as to what can be done about this.
Author : Deborah House
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816522200
Discusses the alarming reduction in the speaking of the Navajo language on the reservation, mapping out some of the intricacies of relations between the English and Navajo languages and the teaching of them, explaining why and how Navajos are having difficulty maintaining their native language, and making suggestions as to what can be done about this.
Author : Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 13,3 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853594922
Defenders of threatened languages all over the world, from advocates of biodiversity to dedicated defenders of their own cultural authenticity, are often humbled by the dimensity of the task that they are faced with when the weak and the few seek to find a safe-harbour against the ravages of the strong and the many. This book provides both practical case studies and theoretical directions from all five continents and advances thereby the collective pursuit of "reversing language shift" for the greater benefit of cultural democracy everywhere.
Author : Elizabeth Little
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1596916567
Documents the author's travels throughout the country, where she witnesses firsthand the nation's many cultures and languages and what they say about who we are individually, socially and politically.
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Publisher : SIL International
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 2023-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1556715013
Multilingualisms vary. Given such variation, how can those from essentially mono-chromatic, monolingual backgrounds begin to appreciate the colorful multilingual realities of the majority world? This question led to the symposium Language and Identity in a Multilingual, Migrating World, May 10–15, 2018, in Penang, Malaysia. This resulting four-part collection of papers. -- J. Stephen Quakenbush
Author : Wendy Shelly Greyeyes
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816545308
A History of Navajo Nation Education: Disentangling Our Sovereign Body unravels the tangle of federal and state education programs that have been imposed on Navajo people and illuminates the ongoing efforts by tribal communities to transfer state authority over Diné education to the Navajo Nation. On the heels of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Department of Diné Education, this important education history explains how the current Navajo educational system is a complex terrain of power relationships, competing agendas, and jurisdictional battles influenced by colonial pressures and tribal resistance. An iron grip of colonial domination over Navajo education remains, thus inhibiting a unified path toward educational sovereignty. In providing the historical roots to today’s challenges, Wendy Shelly Greyeyes clears the path and provides a go-to reference to move discussions forward.
Author : Rashi Jain
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,55 MB
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1788927540
The self-inquiries in this edited volume exemplify the dynamism that permeates global ELT, wherein English language educators and teacher educators are increasingly operating across blurred national boundaries, creating new ‘liminal’ spaces, charting new trajectories, crafting new practices and pedagogies, constructing new identities, and reconceptualizing ELT contexts. This book captures the diverse voices of emerging and established ELT practitioners and scholars, originally from and/or operating in non-Western contexts, spanning not only the so-called non-Western ‘peripheries’, but also peripheries created within the ‘center’ when certain members are minoritized on the basis of their race, language, and/or place of origin. The chapters address a range of related issues occurring at the intersections of personal and professional identities, pedagogy and classroom interactions, as well as research and professional practices in liminal transnational spaces.
Author : Paul V. Kroskrity
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317361288
Engaging Native American Publics considers the increasing influence of Indigenous groups as key audiences, collaborators, and authors with regards to their own linguistic documentation and representation. The chapters critically examine a variety of North American case studies to reflect on the forms and effects of new collaborations between language researchers and Indigenous communities, as well as the types and uses of products that emerge with notions of cultural maintenance and linguistic revitalization in mind. In assessing the nature and degree of change from an early period of "salvage" research to a period of greater Indigenous "self-determination," the volume addresses whether increased empowerment and accountability has truly transformed the terms of engagement and what the implications for the future might be.
Author : Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781853591211
This book is about the theory and practice of assistance to speech-communities whose native languages are threatened because their intergenerational continuity is proceeding negatively, with fewer and fewer speakers (or readers, writers and even understanders) every generation.
Author : Lawrence W. Gross
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0826363229
Native American Rhetoric is the first book to explore rhetorical traditions from within individual Native communities and Native languages. The essays set a new standard for how rhetoric is talked about, written about, and taught. The contributors argue that Native rhetorical practices have their own interior logic, which is grounded in the morality and religion of their given traditions. Once we understand the ways in which Native rhetorical practices are rooted in culture and tradition, the phenomenological expression of the speech patterns becomes clear. The value of Native communities and their languages is underlined throughout the essays. Lawrence W. Gross and the contributors successfully represent several, but not all, Native communities across the United States and Mexico, including the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, Choctaw, Nahua, Chickasaw and Chicana, Tohono O’odham, Navajo, Apache, Hupa, Lower Coast Salish, Koyukon, Tlingit, and Nez Perce. Native American Rhetoric will be an essential resource for continued discussions of Native American rhetorical practices in and beyond the discipline of rhetoric.
