Titel:	Borders traversed, boundaries erected: Creating discursive identities and language communities in the Village of Tewa
Personen:	Kroskrity, Paul V.
Jahr:	2014
Typ:	Aufsatz
Periodikum:	Language and Communication
Seiten:	8-17
Band:	38
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URI:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530914000160
Zuletzt besucht:	17.09.2014
Abstract:	Today the Village of Tewa, First Mesa of the Hopi Reservation in Northern Arizona experiences unprecedented linguistic diversity and change due to language shift to English. Despite a wide range of speaker fluency, the now emblematic Tewa language that their ancestors transported from the Rio Grande Valley almost 325 years ago, is widely valorized within the community. However Language factions have emerged and their debates and contestations focus on legitimate language learning and the proper maintenance of their emblematic language. Boundary creation and crossing are features of discourses that rationalize possible forms of language revitalization and construct communities across temporal barriers. The theoretical implications of these discourseson both local and theoretical notions of language/speech community are explored.