The role of suppressive language policies in language shift and language loss

The role of suppressive language policies in language shift and language loss

The Skutnabb-Kangas and Phillipson analysis of linguistic human rights is used as a basis for understanding language replacement phenomena in the United States. Use of Spanish in Chicano communities is shifting rapidly to English despite the huge numbers of recent immigrants who are dominant in Span...

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Autor principal: Hernández Chávez, Eduardo
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Publicat: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 1989
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spelling oai:ojs.localhost:article-4472020-04-24T18:09:29Z The role of suppressive language policies in language shift and language loss Hernández Chávez, Eduardo Linguicism minority cultures acculturation border Language Arts language Language acquisition Anthropology Ethnology Culture and cultural processes Social sciences Sociology culture migrants International relations International cultural relations The Skutnabb-Kangas and Phillipson analysis of linguistic human rights is used as a basis for understanding language replacement phenomena in the United States. Use of Spanish in Chicano communities is shifting rapidly to English despite the huge numbers of recent immigrants who are dominant in Spanish. Accompanying this shift is a precipitous loss of proficiency by Spanish speakers. Such replacement of a language does not depend on personal choices made by speakers, but on the socio-political conditions within the country. Political goals of profits, exploitation, and hegemony drive classist, racist and ethnicist policies whose purpose is to neutralize resistance to the status quo. These are couched in liberal-sounding myths that justify linguicism, which strives to suppress minority cultures and to acculturate their members in order to pacify perceived ethnic group conflict. The Skutnabb-Kangas and Phillipson Linguicism Continuumn is used to demonstrate the degree of linguistic repression in selected U.S. institutions. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 1989-01-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Explanatory research application/pdf https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/447 10.21670/ref.1989.18-19.a07 Estudios Fronterizos Revista; No. 18-19 (1989); 123-135 Estudios Fronterizos; Núm. 18-19 (1989); 123-135 2395-9134 0187-6961 eng https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/447/673 Derechos de autor 2015 Estudios Fronterizos Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
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The role of suppressive language policies in language shift and language loss
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title The role of suppressive language policies in language shift and language loss
title_short The role of suppressive language policies in language shift and language loss
title_full The role of suppressive language policies in language shift and language loss
title_fullStr The role of suppressive language policies in language shift and language loss
title_full_unstemmed The role of suppressive language policies in language shift and language loss
title_sort role of suppressive language policies in language shift and language loss
description The Skutnabb-Kangas and Phillipson analysis of linguistic human rights is used as a basis for understanding language replacement phenomena in the United States. Use of Spanish in Chicano communities is shifting rapidly to English despite the huge numbers of recent immigrants who are dominant in Spanish. Accompanying this shift is a precipitous loss of proficiency by Spanish speakers. Such replacement of a language does not depend on personal choices made by speakers, but on the socio-political conditions within the country. Political goals of profits, exploitation, and hegemony drive classist, racist and ethnicist policies whose purpose is to neutralize resistance to the status quo. These are couched in liberal-sounding myths that justify linguicism, which strives to suppress minority cultures and to acculturate their members in order to pacify perceived ethnic group conflict. The Skutnabb-Kangas and Phillipson Linguicism Continuumn is used to demonstrate the degree of linguistic repression in selected U.S. institutions.
publisher Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
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