Publications

Publication details [#65128]

Cru, Josep. 2018. Micro-level language planning and YouTube comments: destigmatising indigenous languages through rap music. Current Issues in Language Planning 19 (4) : 434–452.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

internet | language planning | language policy | language revival | rapping

Language as a subject

Mapudungun | Maya, Yucatec

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper argues that rap music (cfr. two video clips posted on YouTube in 2014 and the web comments to them) destigmatises indigenous languages (in this case Yucatec Maya (Mexico) and Mapudungun (Chile)), particularly amid youths, and contributes to their revitalisation.