The Persistence of Language
Constructing and confronting the past and present in the voices of Jane H. Hill
Editors
This edited collection presents two sets of interdisciplinary conversations connecting theoretical, methodological, and ideological issues in the study of language. In the first section, Approaches to the study of the indigenous languages of the Americas, the authors connect historical, theoretical, and documentary linguistics to examine the crucial role of endangered language data for the development of biopsychological theory and to highlight how methodological decisions impact language revitalization efforts. Section two, Approaches to the study of voices and ideologies, connects anthropological and documentary linguistics to examine how discourses of language contact, endangerment, linguistic purism and racism shape scholarly practice and language policy and to underscore the need for linguists and laypersons alike to acquire the analytical tools to deconstruct discourses of inequality. Together, these chapters pay homage to the scholarship of Jane H. Hill, demonstrating how a critical, interdisciplinary linguistics narrows the gap between disparate fields of analysis to treat the ecology of language in its entirety.
[Culture and Language Use, 8] 2013. xxx, 440 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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ForewordKenneth C. Hill | pp. vii–x
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PrefaceShannon T. Bischoff, Deborah Cole, Amy V. Fountain and Mizuki Miyashita | pp. xi–xx
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Introduction: The persistence of language: Constructing and confronting the past and the present in the voices of Jane H. HillShannon T. Bischoff, Deborah Cole, Amy V. Fountain and Mizuki Miyashita | pp. xxi–xxx
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Section 1. Approaches to the study of the indigenous languages of the Americas
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The diachrony of Ute case-markingT. Givón | pp. 3–28
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Language contact as an inhibitor of sound change: An Athabaskan exampleKeren Rice | pp. 29–52
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Stress in Yucatec Maya: Syncretism in loan word incorporation as evidence for stress patternsEmily Kidder | pp. 53–84
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The phonetic correlates of Southern Ute stressStacey Oberly | pp. 85–106
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Revisiting Tohono O’odham high vowelsColleen M. Fitzgerald | pp. 107–132
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Head-marking inflection and the architecture of grammatical theory: Evidence from reduplication and compounding in Hiaki (Yaqui)Jason D. Haugen and Heidi Harley | pp. 133–174
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A case-study in grass roots development of web resources for language workers: The Coeur d’Alene Archive and Online Language Resources (CAOLR)Shannon T. Bischoff and Amy V. Fountain | pp. 175–200
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Section 2. Approaches to the study of voices and ideologies
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Language contact, shift, and endangerment – implications for policy
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Spanish in contact with indigenous tongues: Changing the tide in favor of the heritage languagesJosé Antonio Flores Farfán | pp. 203–228
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How can a language with 7 million speakers be endangered?Heid Orcutt-Gachiri | pp. 229–256
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A documentary ethnography of a Blackfoot language course: Patterns of variationism and standard in the “organization of diversity”Annabelle Chatsis, Mizuki Miyashita and Deborah Cole | pp. 257–290
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Syncretic speech, linguistic ideology, and intertextuality: (Re)Presenting the Spanish translation of ‘Speaking Mexicano’ in Tlaxcala, MexicoJacqueline Messing and Ramos Rosales Flores | pp. 291–318
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Racism in discourse – analyses of practice
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Narrative discriminations in Central California’s indigenous narrative traditions: Relativism or (covert) racism?Paul V. Kroskrity | pp. 321–338
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The voice of (White) reason: Enunciations of difference, authorship, interpellation, and jokesBarbra A. Meek | pp. 339–364
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Double-voicing in the everyday language of Brazilian black activismJennifer Roth-Gordon and Antonio José B. da Silva | pp. 365–388
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Uptake (un)limited: The mediatization of register shifting and the maintenance of standard in U.S. public discourseDeborah Cole and Régine Pellicer | pp. 389–414
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The silken cord: An essay in honor of Jane HillRichard Delgado | pp. 415–424
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Afterword: Jane Hill’s current workClaire Bowern | pp. 425–430
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Language index | pp. 431–432
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Subject index | pp. 433–440
“Jane H. Hill has been a model for her students and her colleagues alike in her roles as scholar-researcher, teacher, and mentor, and her effectiveness in all of these roles emerges in the contributions her colleagues and students offer in this simultaneously inspiring and useful volume. Their work, like hers, ranges across such topics as language history, language documentation, language revitalization, and language ideology, and again, like hers, deals both with seemingly abstract matters and with matters that have immediate sociopolitical reverberations. There will be something of value here for every reader who has benefited from Hill’s own work.”
Nancy C. Dorian, Bryn Mawr College
“For the many conversant with the work of Jane Hill, this volume will bring up familiar concepts. It does justice to the scope and quality of scholarship in Jane Hill’s long career in anthropology and linguistics.”
Sergio Romero, The University of Texas at Austin, in American Anthropologist 116(4): 863-864, 2014
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFB: Sociolinguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General