Linguistic Ideologies of Native American Language Revitalization Doing the Lost Language Ghost Dance /

• Main Author: Leedom Shaul, David (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Anthropology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Cultural heritage.; Anthropology.; Linguistic anthropology.; Social Sciences.; Linguistic Anthropology.; Cultural Heritage.

The concept of this volume is that the paradigm of European national languages (official orthography; language standardization; full use of language in most everyday contexts) is imposed in cookie-cutter fashion on most language revitalization efforts of Native American languages.  While this model...