Chapter published in:
Variation and Evolution: Aspects of language contact and contrast across the Spanish-speaking world
Edited by Sandro Sessarego, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana and Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 29] 2020
► pp. 231–252

Chapter 10
Decolonial sociolinguistics gestures of Andean Quechua-Spanish bilingual college students promoting Quechua

| Western Oregon University
Andean college students in Cusco, Peru, struggle to overcome sociolinguistic discrimination against Quechua-Spanish bilingualism during their pursuit of higher education. To examine this situation and possibilities for change, I employed a participatory method, photovoice (Wang & Burris, 1994) within a community-based participatory research framework, to facilitate bilingual college students’ exploration of Quechuan practices in their university. Findings of this participatory study explain how bilingual participants contributed to community critical awareness of Quechua-Spanish bilingual ideologies in Cusco when presenting their visual metaphors during photo interventions. Participants shared personal experiences to maintaining their Quechua language and shared their proposals for encouraging their university to create a fertile terrain for bilingualism, rooting out ideologies of deficits toward Quechua, and promoting Quechuan practices in college.
Keywords: Quechua-Spanish bilingualism, language ideologies, sociolinguistic discrimination, Andean linguistics
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Policy versus practice
    • 1.2Researcher’s positionality
    • 1.3Conceptual framework
      • 1.3.1Conceptual models of the analytics of coloniality and analytics of decoloniality
      • 1.3.2Decolonial gestures
      • 1.3.3Language ideologies
  • 2.Methodology
    • 2.1Choice of methodology
    • 2.2Community-based participatory research and design overview
    • 2.3Photovoice participants
    • 2.4Data analysis
  • 3.Findings
  • 4.Discussion and conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 11 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.29.10ken
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