Ethnography and Language Policy

<p>Illuminating, through ethnographic inquiry, how individual agents "make" language policy in everyday social practice, this volume advances the growing field of language planning and policy using a critical sociocultural approach. From this perspective, language policy is conceptualized not only as official acts and documents, but as language-regulating modes of human interaction, negotiation, and production mediated by relations of power. </p><p>Using this conceptual framework, the volume addresses the impacts of globalization, diaspora, and transmigration on language practices and policies; language endangerment, revitalization, and maintenance; medium-of-instruction policies; literacy and biliteracy; language and ethnic/national identity; and the ethical tensions in conducting critical ethnographic language policy research. These issues are contextualized in case studies and reflective commentaries by leading scholars in the field. </p><p><em>Ethnography and Language Policy</em> extends previous work in the field, tapping into leading-edge interdisciplinary scholarship, and charting new directions. Recognizing that language policy is not merely or even primarily about language per se, but rather about power relations that structure social-linguistic hierarchies, the authors seek to expand policy discourses in ways that foster social justice for all. </p> <p>Foreword, Courtney Cazden</p><p>Preface</p><p>Acknowledgements</p><p>ENTRY INTO CONVERSATION</p><p><em>Introducing Ethnography and Language Policy, </em>Teresa L. McCarty</p><p>ETHNOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE POLICY CASES AND CONTEXTS, PART I</p><p>1. <em>Critical Ethnography and Indigenous Language Survival – Some New Directions in Language Policy Research and Praxis, </em>Teresa L. McCarty </p><p>2. <em>"How Are You Hopi if You Can’t Speak It?" – An Ethnographic Study of Language as Cultural Practice among Contemporary Hopi Youth, </em>Sheilah E. Nicholas</p><p>3. <em>Diaspora Communities, Language Maintenance, and Policy Dilemmas, </em>A. Suresh Canagarajah</p><p>4. <em>Reconstructing Ethnography and Language Policy in Colonial Namibian Schooling: Historical Perspectives on St. Mary’s High School at Odibo, </em>Rodney Hopson</p><p>INTERLUDE – COMMENTARIES ON PART I</p><p><em>Language Ideologies, Ethnography, and Ethnology: Directions in Anthropological Approaches to Language Policy, </em>Perry Gilmore</p><p><em>Language, Globalization, and the State: Issues for the New Policy Studies, </em>James Collins</p><p>ETHNOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE POLICY CASES AND CONTEXTS, PART II</p><p>5. <em>International Migration and Quichua Language Shift in the Ecuadorian Andes, </em>Kendall A. King and Marleen Haboud</p><p>6. <em>Exploring Biliteracy in Mäori-Medium Education: An Ethnographic Perspective, </em>Richard Hill and Stephen May </p><p>7. <em>U.S. Latinos and the Learning of English: The Metonymy of Language Policy, </em>Mary Carol Combs, Norma González, and Luis C. Moll</p><p>8. <em>Critical Perspectives on Language-in-education Policy: The Corsican Example, </em>Alexandra Jaffe</p><p>9. <em>Languages, Texts, and Literacy Practices: An Ethnographic Lens on Bilingual Vocational Education in Wales, </em>Marilyn Martin-Jones</p><p>10. <em>Researching-Texting Tensions in Qualitative Research: Ethics in and around Textual Fidelity, Selectivity, and Translations, </em>Vaidehi Ramanathan</p><p>SYNTHESIS AND DISCUSSION </p><p><em>The Ethnography of Language Policy, </em>Nancy H. Hornberger and David Cassels Johnson</p><p>About the Contributors</p><p>Author Index</p><p>Subject Index</p>