Publications
Publication details [#60255]
Cru, Josep. 2015. Language revitalisation from the ground up: promoting Yucatec Maya on Facebook. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 36 (3) : 284–296.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study asserts that actual grassroots attempts to revitalise Yucatec Maya, an indigenous Mexican language, in social media and in particular on Facebook, centering on local setting, horizontal discursive practices, and speakers as decisive agents, are especially important in a country with deeply rooted vertical policies to foster indigenous languages and cultures.