Publications

Publication details [#26514]

Aronsson, Karin and Camilla Rindstedt. 2002. Growing up monolingual in a bilingual community. The Quichua revitalization paradox. Language in Society 31 (5) : 721–743.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | child language | ethnicity | language revival | language shift

Language as a subject

Quechua | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study deals with intergenerational Quichua-Spanish speaking practices and children's play dialogues in the Ecuadorian sierra community of San Antonio, in the light of the language shift from Quichua-Spanish bilingualism to Spanish monolingualism. Generational language choices appear to be linked to different ideologies or notions of ethnicity.