Ethnography and Language Policy

Herausgeber: L McCarty, Teresa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Illuminating, through ethnographic inquiry, how individual agents "make" language policy in everyday social practice, this volume advances the growing field of language planning and policy using a critical sociocultural approach. From this perspective, language policy is conceptualized not only as official acts and documents, but as language-regulating modes of human interaction, negotiation, and production mediated by relations of power. Using this conceptual framework, the volume addresses the impacts of globalization, diaspora, and transmigration on language practices and policies; language endangerment, revitalization, and maintenance; medium-of-instruction policies; literacy and biliteracy; language and ethnic/national identity; and the ethical tensions in conducting critical ethnographic language policy research. These issues are contextualized in case studies and reflective commentaries by leading scholars in the field. Ethnography and Language Policy extends previous work in the field, tapping into leading-edge interdisciplinary scholarship, and charting new directions. Recognizing that language policy is not merely or even primarily about language per se, but rather about power relations that structure social-linguistic hierarchies, the authors seek to expand policy discourses in ways that foster social justice for all.

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Seeking to expand policy discourses in ways that lead to social justice for all, this volume uses a critical sociocultural and ethnographic approach to address a variety of pressing language planning and policy issues, contextualized in case studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780415801393
• ISBN-10: 0415801397
• Artikelnr.: 29921469

Autorenporträt

Teresa L. McCarty is the Alice Wiley Snell Professor of Education Policy Studies, Professor of Applied Linguistics, and Co-Director of the Center for Indian Education at Arizona State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, Courtney Cazden
Preface
Acknowledgements
ENTRY INTO CONVERSATION
Introducing Ethnography and Language Policy, Teresa L. McCarty
ETHNOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE POLICY CASES AND CONTEXTS, PART I
1. Critical Ethnography and Indigenous Language Survival - Some New
Directions in Language Policy Research and Praxis, Teresa L. McCarty
2. "How Are You Hopi if You Can't Speak It?" - An Ethnographic Study of
Language as Cultural Practice among Contemporary Hopi Youth, Sheilah E.
Nicholas
3. Diaspora Communities, Language Maintenance, and Policy Dilemmas, A.
Suresh Canagarajah
4. Reconstructing Ethnography and Language Policy in Colonial Namibian
Schooling: Historical Perspectives on St. Mary's High School at Odibo,
Rodney Hopson
INTERLUDE - COMMENTARIES ON PART I
Language Ideologies, Ethnography, and Ethnology: Directions in
Anthropological Approaches to Language Policy, Perry Gilmore
Language, Globalization, and the State: Issues for the New Policy Studies,
James Collins
ETHNOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE POLICY CASES AND CONTEXTS, PART II
5. International Migration and Quichua Language Shift in the Ecuadorian
Andes, Kendall A. King and Marleen Haboud
6. Exploring Biliteracy in Mäori-Medium Education: An Ethnographic
Perspective, Richard Hill and Stephen May
7. U.S. Latinos and the Learning of English: The Metonymy of Language
Policy, Mary Carol Combs, Norma González, and Luis C. Moll
8. Critical Perspectives on Language-in-education Policy: The Corsican
Example, Alexandra Jaffe
9. Languages, Texts, and Literacy Practices: An Ethnographic Lens on
Bilingual Vocational Education in Wales, Marilyn Martin-Jones
10. Researching-Texting Tensions in Qualitative Research: Ethics in and
around Textual Fidelity, Selectivity, and Translations, Vaidehi Ramanathan
SYNTHESIS AND DISCUSSION
The Ethnography of Language Policy, Nancy H. Hornberger and David Cassels
Johnson
About the Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index