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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
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| ISBN: | 3110185970 9783110185973 3110197677 9783110197679 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.