Ethnography and language policy

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, this 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 policies and practices; 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. This book 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. -- Back Cover.

Introducing ethnography and language policy / Teresa L. McCarty -- Critical ethnography and indigenous language survival: some new directions in language policy research and praxis / Teresa L. McCarty [and others] -- "How are you Hopi if you can't speak it?": an ethnography study of language as cultural practice among contemporary Hopi youth / Sheilah E. Nicholas -- Diaspora communities, language maintenance, and policy dilemmas / A. Suresh Canagarajah -- Reconstructing ethnography and language policy in colonial Namibian schooling: historical perspectives on St Mary's High School at Odibo / Rodney K. Hopson -- Language ideologies, ethnography, and ethnology: new directions in anthropological approaches to language policy / Perry Gilmore -- Language, globalization, and the state: issues for the new policy studies / James Collins -- International migration and Quichua language shift in the Ecuadorian Andes / Kendall A. King and Marleen Haboud -- Exploring biliteracy in Māori-medium education: an ethnography perspective / Richard Hill and Stephen May -- US Latinos and learning of English: the metonymy of language policy / Mary Carol Combs, Norma González, and Luis C. Moll -- Critica…