Domesticating the Barbarous Tongue: Language Policy for the Navajo in Historical Perspective  

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Shonerd, Henry G.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Problems and Language Planning vol. 14 no. 3 (1990), page 193-208.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LPL/14 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Present-day language policy for the Navajo, the largest group of Native Americans in the United States, is best understood in light of an almost 400-year history of attempts to suppress language varieties indigenous to the culture. Beginning with the Spanish in the seventeenth century and well into the first century of contact with the United States, the rationalization for this suppression revolved around religious ideology. Recent rationalization is rooted in doctrines of compensatory education, but the suppression is, perhaps, even more total. Alternative policies and practices, rooted in a nonprescriptive view of language variety and progressive educational philosophy, are outlined.

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