Mexican Indigenous Languages at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century (Contributions to the Sociology of Language, 91) (Contributions to the Sociology of Language)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: February 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9783110185973
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Sociolinguistics; Language policy; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books; North & Central American indigenous languages; Mexico; Languages; Native American Languages; Indians of Mexico; Communication; Language and culture
First sentence: This volume approaches the study of Mexican indigenous languages (henceforth MIL) utilizing the perspective of reversing language shift (henceforth RLS) as proposed and developed by Joshua A. Fishman (1991 and 2001).