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Publication Date: 2013
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Mapudungun According to Its Speakers: Mapuche Intellectuals and the Influence of Standard Language Ideology
Lagos, Cristián; Espinoza, Marco; Rojas, Darío
Current Issues in Language Planning, v14 n3-4 p403-418 2013
In this paper, we analyse the cultural models (or folk theory of language) that the Mapuche intellectual elite have about Mapudungun, the native language of the Mapuche people still spoken today in Chile as the major minority language. Our theoretical frame is folk linguistics and studies of language ideology, but we have also taken an applied linguistics approach to address the effects that such cultural models have had on language planning and revitalisation. We will propose that the view of the Mapuche elite is largely influenced by the standard language ideology, and that this influence has been detrimental for the revitalisation of Mapudungun. We observe this cultural model in a sample of texts, interviews and data obtained during ethnographic fieldwork in Chile.
Descriptors: Interviews, American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries, Language Research, Folk Culture, Native Language, American Indians, Language Attitudes, Ethnography, Language Planning, Cultural Maintenance, Applied Linguistics, Standard Spoken Usage, Cultural Influences, Language Maintenance, Anthropological Linguistics
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Chile
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