: Margarita Hidalgo
: Mexican Indigenous Languages at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110197679
: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 204.20
:
: Sonstige Sprachen / Sonstige Literaturen
: English
: 393
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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.



Margarita Hidalgois Professor of Spanish Linguistics at San Diego State University, California, USA.
Frontmatter1
Contents5
Chapter 1 Mexican indigenous languagesin the twenty-first century15
Chapter 2 The Indianization of Spaniards in New Spain41
Chapter 3 The multiple dimensions of language maintenance and shift in colonial Mexico65
Chapter 4 Socio-historical determinants in the survival of Mexican indigenous languages99
Chapter 5 Legislating diversity in twenty-first century Mexico139
Chapter 6 Centralization vs. local initiatives. Mexican and U.S. legislation of Amerindian languages179
Chapter 7 The Mexican indigenous languages and the national censuses: 1970–2000203
Chapter 8 Local language promoters and new discursive spaces: Mexicano in and out of schools in Tlaxcala261
Chapter 9 Bilingual education: Strategy for language maintenance or shift of Yucatec Maya?293
Chapter 10 Intervention in indigenous education. Culturally-sensitive materials for bilingual Nahuatl speakers313
Chapter 11 Stages of bilingualism. Local conversational practices among Mazahuas337
Chapter 12 Language policy. Past, present, and future369
Backmatter389