American indigenous languages Books

How do language policies in schools create inequalities among learners? How do policies marginalize some students while granting privilege to others? How do language policies in education serve the...

Cambios inducidos por contacto en el español andino peruano explores the intricate sociolinguistic landscapes of Latin American Andean regions, focusing on the impact of language contact between...

Quechua, with nearly ten million speakers living primarily across the Andes, stands as the most widely spoken Indigenous language of the Americas today. Yet, this less commonly taught language (LCTL)...

Co-published by the Center for Applied LinguisticsTimely and comprehensive, this state-of-the-art overview of major issues related to heritage, community, and Native American languages in the United...

The Mayan Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the language family associated with the Classic Mayan civilization (AD 200–900), a family whose individual languages are still spoken today by...

Comics are a pervasive art form and an intrinsic part of the cultural fabric of most countries. And yet, relatively little has been written on the translation of comics. Comics in Translation...

Illuminating, through ethnographic inquiry, how individual agents "make" language policy in everyday social practice, this volume advances the growing field of language planning and policy using a...

'A coming-of-age story filled with music in language and plot: beautiful and devastating'OBSERVER, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'I felt consumed by this book. I loved it, you will love it'DAISY JOHNSON'Will...

Mutual Influence in Situations of Spanish Language Contact in the Americas focuses on the structural results of contact between Spanish and Maya, Quechua, Guaraní, Portuguese, and English in the...