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...
Beliefs and feelings about language vary dramatically within and across Native American cultural groups and are an acknowledged part of the processes ...
Stories are important in all human societies, and especially in those whose languages are threatened with extinction. They aren t just entertainment, writes Laguna Pueblo novelist Leslie Marmon Silko in "Ceremony." They are all we have . . . to fight off illness and death. You don t have anything if you don t have the stories. The contributors to this volume, all linguists and linguistic anthropologists concerned with the revitalization of indigenous languages, draw on that understanding as they explore Native American storytelling both as a response to and a symptom of language endangerment....
Stories are important in all human societies, and especially in those whose languages are threatened with extinction. They aren t just entertainment, ...
The accomplishments and enduring influence of renowned anthropologist Dell Hymes are showcased in these essays by leading practitioners in the field. Hymes (1927-2009) is arguably best known for his pioneering work in ethnopoetics, a studied approach to Native verbal art that elucidates cultural significance and aesthetic form. As these essays amply demonstrate, nearly six decades later ethnopoetics and Hymes's focus on narrative inequality and voice provide a still valuable critical lens for current research in anthropology and folklore. Through ethnopoetics, so much can be understood in...
The accomplishments and enduring influence of renowned anthropologist Dell Hymes are showcased in these essays by leading practitioners in the fiel...
Paul V. Kroskrity Barbra A. Meek M. Eleanor Nevins
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...
Engaging Native American Publics considers the increasing influence of Indigenous groups as key audiences, collaborators, and authors with re...
