As a field of study and a social practice, language revitalization has grown exponentially in tandem with escalating language endangerment throughout the world. This volume examines the current state of Indigenous language revitalization in the Americas. Focusing on the Americas, home to 15 percent of the worlds Indigenous population, it explores past and recent language revitalization research and initiatives across this vast territory, including "top-down" (official) and "bottom-up" (grassroots) language planning and policy. The book is organized thematically and regionally, with complementary chapters representing work in Canada, the U.S., and the circumpolar North, and in Latin America and the Caribbean. Offering state-of-the-art scholarship and analysis of practice in Indigenous language revitalization throughout the hemisphere, this singular collection, with chapters by both established and emerging scholars Indigenous and non-Indigenous, all with strong expertise in their topic is an invaluable resource to widen the research horizon and deepen regional and cross-regional perspectives on language revitalization for Indigenous peoples.
Introduction Teresa L. McCarty and Serafķn M. Coronel-Molina I: Policy
and Politics
1. Policy and Politics of Language Revitalization in the USA and
Canada Teresa L. McCarty
2. Policy and Politics of Language Revitalization in
Latin America and the Caribbean Bret Gustafson, Félix Julca Guerrero, and
Ajbee Jiménez II. Processes of Language Shift and Revitalization
3. Language
Acquisition, Shift, and Revitalization Processes in the USA and Canada Leanne
Hinton and Barbra Meek
4. Language Acquisition, Shift, and Revitalization
Processes in Latin America and the Caribbean Jacqueline Messing and Regugio
Nava Nava III. The Home-School-Community Interface
5. The
Home-School-Community Interface in Language Revitalization in the USA and
Canada Tiffany S. Lee
6. The Home-School-Community Interface in Language
Revitalization in Latin America and the Caribbean Luis Enrique López and
Fernando Garcķa IV. Local and Global Dimensions Perspectives
7. Local and
Global Dimensions of Language Revitalization in the USA and Canada Mary S.
Linn and Stacey I. Oberly
8. Local and Global Perspectives of Language
Revitalization in Latin America and the Caribbean Kendall A. King and Martina
Arnal V. Linguistic Human Rights
9. Linguistic Human Rights and Language
Revitalization in the USA and Canada Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Andrea Bear
Nicholas, and Jon Reyhner
10. Linguistic Human Rights and Language
Revitalization in Latin America and the Caribbean Marleen Haboud, Rosaleen
Howard, Josep Cru, and Jane Freeland VI. Revitalization Programs and Impacts
11. Revitalization Programs and Impacts in the USA and Canada Noelani
Iokepa-Guerrero
12. Revitalization Programs and Impacts in Latin America and
the Caribbean Judith Maxwell VII. New Domains for Indigenous Languages
13.
New Domains for Indigenous Language Acquisition and Use in the USA and Canada
Mary Hermes, Phil Cash Cash, Keola Donaghy, Joseph Erb, and Susan Penfield
14. New Domains for Indigenous Language Acquisition and Use in Latin America
and the Caribbean Serafķn M. Coronel-Molina About the Contributors Author
Index Subject Index
Serafķn M. Coronel-Molina is Associate Professor in the Department of Literacy, Culture, and Language Education in the School of Education at Indiana University Bloomington, USA.
Teresa L. McCarty is the G.F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the A.W. Snell Professor Emerita of Education Policy Studies at Arizona State University, USA.
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