Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas

By T L McCarty

Book Overview

Focusing on the Americas - home to 40 to 50 million Indigenous people - this book explores the history and current state of Indigenous language revitalization across this vast region. Complementary chapters on the USA and Canada, and Latin America and the Caribbean, offer a panoramic view while tracing nuanced trajectories of "top down" (official) and "bottom up" (grass roots) language planning and policy initiatives. Authored by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, the book is organized around seven overarching themes: Policy and Politics; Processes of Language Shift and Revitalization; The Home-School-Community Interface; Local and Global Perspectives; Linguistic Human Rights; Revitalization Programs and Impacts; New Domains for Indigenous Languages

Providing a comprehensive, hemisphere-wide scholarly and practical source, this singular collection simultaneously fills a gap in the language revitalization literature and contributes to Indigenous language revitalization efforts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138341851
• ISBN13: 9781138341852
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"