Codeswitching avoidance as a strategy for Mam (mMya) linguistic revitalization
In: International journal of American linguistics, Jg. 71 (2005), Heft 3, S. 239-276
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Since 1991, Fishman has carved out a new area of focus for research and linguistic activism-the Reversal of Language Shift (RLS)-within the general field of the Sociology of Language. In this article, I discuss a strategyof RLS employed by speakers of Mam (Maya), an endangered language of Guatemala. Less-educated Main routinely codeswitch to Spanish, which I present within Myers-Scotton's Markedness Model of codeswitching (1993), while educated speakers categorically do not. Communication Accommodation Theory (Giles and Powesland 1975) offers a framework for accounting for this contrastive behavior through consideration of convergence and divergence strategies aimed at constructing positive social identities (Tajfel 1974). I briefly illustrate this codeswitching behavior in four abridged narrative texts and compare speakers' attitudes toward codeswitching in relation to how many years of formal education they have had. I suggest that the initiative of Mam teachers in purifying the language is supportive of their general goal of RLS and Mam linguistic and cultural revitalization.
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Codeswitching avoidance as a strategy for Mam (mMya) linguistic revitalization
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | COLLINS, Wesley M |
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Zeitschrift: | International journal of American linguistics, Jg. 71 (2005), Heft 3, S. 239-276 |
Veröffentlichung: | Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2005 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
Umfang: | print, 1 p.3/4 |
ISSN: | 0020-7071 (print) |
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