American Indian English

Author : William Leap
Publisher : University of Utah Press
ISBN 13 : 1607811987
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Indian English written by William Leap and published by University of Utah Press. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Indian English documents and examines the diversity of English in American Indian speech communities. It presents a convincing case for the fundamental influence of ancestral American Indian languages and cultures on spoken and written expression in different Indian English codes. A distillation of over twenty years' research, this pioneering work explores the linguistic and sociolinguistic characteristics of English language use among members of Navajo, Hopi, Mojave, Ute, Tsimshian, Kotzebue, Ponca, Pima, Lakota, Cheyenne, Laguna, Santa Ana, Isleta, Chilcotin, Seminole, Cherokee, and other American Indian tribes. American Indian English fills numerous gaps in existing studies of language histories, Indian student school experience, Indian-white contact, and "acculturation." Unlike contemporary studies on schooling, ethnicity, empowerment, and educational failure, American Indian English avoids postmodernist jargon and discourse strategies in favor of direct description and commentary. Data are derived from conditions of real-life experience faced by speakers of Indian English in various English-speaking settings. This practical focus enhances the book's accessibility to Indian educators and community-based teachers, as well as non-Indian academics.

Author : Katharina Reese
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640764498
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Indian English: Background and Development written by Katharina Reese and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, Free University of Berlin (John-F. Kennedy Institut für Nordamerikastudien), course: Linguistic Varieties and Language Practices in the USA , language: English, abstract: When the first Europeans came to America, there existed more than 500 different Native American and Alaska Native languages. Through the contact with the English language and Euro-American cultures, the usage of indigenous languages started to decline. But it had an influence on the way Native Americans started speaking English.

Author : Shirley Silver
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816521395
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origin of the Earth and Moon written by Shirley Silver and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.

Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195349830
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Indian Languages written by Lyle Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eskimoan). Campbell's project is to take stock of what is currently known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics, and the success and failure of its various methodologies. There is remarkably little consensus in the field, largely due to the 1987 publication of Language in the Americas by Joseph Greenberg. He claimed to trace a historical relation between all American Indian languages of North and South America, implying that most of the Western Hemisphere was settled by a single wave of immigration from Asia. This has caused intense controversy and Campbell, as a leading scholar in the field, intends this volume to be, in part, a response to Greenberg. Finally, Campbell demonstrates that the historical study of Native American languages has always relied on up-to-date methodology and theoretical assumptions and did not, as is often believed, lag behind the European historical linguistic tradition.

Author : John Stoutenburgh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of the American Indian written by John Stoutenburgh and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Guillermo Bartelt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socio- and Stylolinguistic Perspectives on American Indian English Texts written by Guillermo Bartelt and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1 of this volume interprets cultural meaning as revealed in prosodic and temporal phenomena in spoken English discourse data. The emerging theme is the (re)construction of American Indian tribal indentities in terms of a newly created intertribal consciousness in an urban setting. Part 2 introduces an ethnography of writing approach not only as a contribution to the intersection of linguistics and literature in general but as a valid approach to American Indian texts in particular.

Author : Jack Utter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806133133
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Indians written by Jack Utter and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Answer to today's questions.

Author : Jerry Lipka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135460256
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming the Culture of Schools written by Jerry Lipka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book speaks directly to issues of equity and school transformation, and shows how one indigenous minority teachers' group engaged in a process of transforming schooling in their community. Documented in one small locale far-removed from mainstream America, the personal narratives by Yupík Eskimo teachers address the very heart of school reform. The teachers' struggles portray the first in a series of steps through which a group of Yupík teachers and university colleagues began a slow process of reconciling cultural differences and conflict between the culture of the school and the culture of the community. The story told in this book goes well beyond documenting individual narratives, by providing examples and insights for others who are involved in creating culturally responsive education that fundamentally changes the role and relationship of teachers and community to schooling.

Author : Roger L. Nichols
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471003960
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Indian: Past and Present written by Roger L. Nichols and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1971 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Camilla Townsend
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405159073
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Indian History written by Camilla Townsend and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Reader from the Uncovering the Past series provides a comprehensive introduction to American Indian history. Over 60 primary documents allow the voices of natives to illuminate the American past Includes samples of native languages just above the full translations of particular texts Provides comprehensive introductions and headnotes, as well as images, an extensive bibliography, and suggestions for further research Includes such texts as a decoded Maya inscription, letters written during the French and Indian War on the distribution of small pox blankets, and a diatribe by General George Armstrong Custer shortly before he was killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn