Native American Language Ideologies: Beliefs, Practices, and Struggles in Indian Country

by PaulV.Kroskrity (Editor), Margaret C . Field (Editor)

• New

  Illustrated
  2010

  $42.91

  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.