Rosaleen Howard

Multilingualism in the Andes

Policies, Politics, Power

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This illuminating book critically examines multicultural language politics and policymaking in the Andean-Amazonian countries of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, demonstrating how issues of language and power throw light on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781032395975
• ISBN-10: 1032395974
• Artikelnr.: 71236897

Autorenporträt

Rosaleen Howard is Professor Emerita in the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University with specialism in Latin American Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology. Editor of Creating Context in Andean Cultures (Oxford University Press, 1997) and co-editor of Knowledge and Learning in the Andes: Ethnographic Perspectives (Liverpool University Press, 2002). Author of Por los linderos de la lengua: ideologías lingüísticas en los Andes (Institute of Peruvian Studies, Lima, 2007) and Beyond the lexicon of difference: Discursive Performance of Identity in the Andes, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 4 (1): 17-46, 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Language: vehicle of power and object of policy
3. Linguistic racism in Latin America: reality and rights 4.
Post-millennial politics of multilingualism in Hispanicised Latin America
5. Indigenous language activism, second-language learning and the growth of
agency 6. Translation, interpreting and Indigenous language rights7.
Conclusions