Cargando…

Mexican indigenous languages at the dawn of the twenty-first century /

This book provides a valuable insight into the past and present situation of Mexican indigenous languages (MIL). It delves into the dynamics of power that emerged in the Mexican colony as a result of the presence of Spanish, today the dominant language in all public domains. After almost five hundre...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hidalgo, Margarita G. (Margarita Guadalupe)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2006.
Colección:Contributions to the sociology of language ; 91.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Mexican indigenous languages in the twenty-first century / Margarita Hidalgo
  • The Indianization of Spaniards in New Spain / Claudia Parodi
  • The multiple dimensions of language maintenance and shift in colonial Mexico / Margarita Hidalgo
  • Socio-historical determinants in the survival of Mexican indigenous languages / Margarita Hidalgo
  • Legislating diversity in twenty-first century Mexico / Dora Pellicer, Bárbara Cifuentes and Carmen Herrera
  • Centralization vs. local initiatives. Mexican and U.S. legislation of Amerindian languages / F. Daniel Althoff
  • The Mexican indigenous languages and the national censuses: 1970-2000 / Bárbara Cifuentes and José Luis Moctezuma
  • Local language promoters and new discursive spaces: Mexicano in and out of schools in Tlaxcala / Jacqueline H.E. Messing and Elsie Rockwell
  • Bilingual education : strategy for language maintenance or shift of Yucatec Maya? / Barbara Pfeiler and Lenka Zámišová
  • Intervention in indigenous education. Culturally-sensitive materials for bilingual Nahuatl speakers / José Antonio Flores Farfán
  • Stages of bilingualism. Local conversational practices among Mazahuas / Dora Pellicer
  • Language policy. Past, present, and future / Margarita Hidalgo.