ISBN-13: 9780415522427 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str.
ISBN-13: 9780415522427 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str.
Innovatively bridging the fields of youth studies and language planning and policy, this book takes a close, nuanced look at indigenous youth bi/multilingualism across diverse cultural and linguistic settings, drawing out comparisons, contrasts, and implications for language planning and policy. Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars with longstanding ties to language planning efforts in diverse indigenous communities examine language policy and planning as de facto and de jure as covert and overt, bottom-up and top-down. This approach illuminates crosscutting themes of language identity and ideology, cultural conflict, and linguistic human rights as youth negotiate these issues within rapidly changing sociolinguistic contexts. A distinctive feature of the book is its chapters and commentaries by Indigenous scholars writing about their own communities. This landmark volume offers new theoretical, empirical, and methodological insights, as well as lessons for intergenerational language planning in diverse sociocultural contexts.