Mexican Indigenous Languages at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century,9783110185973

Mexican Indigenous Languages at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century

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ISBN13: 9783110185973
ISBN10: 3110185970
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-02-28
Publisher(s): Mouton De Gruyter
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This book indeed provides all the insights and information we need if we want to understand Mexico at the beginning of the 21st century. Indigenous languages are highlighted as important entities in the national and international contexts, and the subjects are treated with dignity and respect. All the languages have equal status in the newer society.


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Summary

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 hundred years, the imbalance of power-sharing functions created the need for structural changes that resulted in the new legislation of 2003. The book also offers innovative classifications of MIL, trends of bilingualism, and new programs of bilingual education. It reinterprets the chronology of language policy in the early colonial period and provides the rationale for reversing language shift in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Prologue
At the dawn of the twenty-first centuryp. vii
History and theory
Mexican indigenous languages in the twenty-first centuryp. 3
The Indianization of Spaniards in New Spainp. 29
The multiple dimensions of language maintenance and shift in colonial Mexicop. 53
Socio-historical determinants in the survival of Mexican indigenous languagesp. 87
Language policy
Legislating diversity in twenty-first century Mexicop. 127
Centralization vs. local initiatives. Mexican and U.S. legislation of Amerindian languagesp. 167
The Mexican indigenous languages and the national censuses: 1970-2000p. 191
Bilingualism and bilingual education
Local language promoters and new discursive spaces: Mexicano in and out of schools in Tlaxcalap. 249
Bilingual education: Strategy for language maintenance or shift of Yucatec Maya?p. 281
Intervention in indigenous education. Culturally-sensitive materials for bilingual Nahuatl speakersp. 301
Stages of bilingualism. Local conversational practices among Mazahuasp. 325
Conclusions
Language policy. Past, present, and futurep. 357
Indexp. 377
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