Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism

<p>Bridging the fields of youth studies and language planning and policy this book takes a close nuanced look at Indigenous youth bi/multilingualism across diverse cultural and linguistic settings drawing out comparisons contrasts and important implications for language planning and policy and for projects designed to curtail language loss. Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars with longstanding ties to language planning efforts in diverse Indigenous communities examine language policy and planning as <i>de facto </i>and <i>de jure</i> – as covert and overt bottom-up and top-down. This approach illuminates crosscutting themes of language identity and ideology cultural conflict and linguistic human rights as youth negotiate these issues within rapidly changing sociolinguistic contexts. A distinctive feature of the book is its chapters and commentaries by Indigenous scholars writing about their own communities. </p><p>This landmark volume stands alone in offering a look at diverse Indigenous youth in multiple endangered language communities new theoretical empirical and methodological insights and lessons for intergenerational language planning in dynamic sociocultural contexts.</p>