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Lessons from Fort Apache : beyond language endangerment and maintenance / M. Eleanor Nevins.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Wiley-Blackwell studies in discourse and culture ; 5.Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, [2013]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118426395
  • 1118426398
  • 9781118426401
  • 1118426401
  • 9781118426425
  • 1118426428
  • 9781118426470
  • 1118426479
  • 1299464475
  • 9781299464476
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lessons from Fort Apache.DDC classification:
  • 979.004/9725 23
LOC classification:
  • E99.A6
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Indigenous languages and the mediation of communities -- Learning to listen -- They live in Lonesome Dove -- Stories in the moment of encounter -- What no Coyote story means -- "Some 'no no' and some 'yes'" -- Sustainability -- Appendix A: Lawrence Mithlo -- Appendix B: Eva Lupe on her early life -- Index.
Summary: "This incisive ethnographic analysis of indigenous language documentation, maintenance, and revitalization focuses on linguistic heritage issues on the Native American reservation at Fort Apache and explores the broader social, political and religious influences on changing language practices in indigenous communities. Offers a focused ethnographic analysis of an indigenous community that also explores global issues of language endangerment and maintenance and their socio-historical contexts"--Product Information.
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Introduction -- Indigenous languages and the mediation of communities -- Learning to listen -- They live in Lonesome Dove -- Stories in the moment of encounter -- What no Coyote story means -- "Some 'no no' and some 'yes'" -- Sustainability -- Appendix A: Lawrence Mithlo -- Appendix B: Eva Lupe on her early life -- Index.

"This incisive ethnographic analysis of indigenous language documentation, maintenance, and revitalization focuses on linguistic heritage issues on the Native American reservation at Fort Apache and explores the broader social, political and religious influences on changing language practices in indigenous communities. Offers a focused ethnographic analysis of an indigenous community that also explores global issues of language endangerment and maintenance and their socio-historical contexts"--Product Information.

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